Re: Meta-comment: use of "red" / "black" terminology...

[Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>]

At 12:25 -0800 11/10/03, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>[Keep "red"/"black" security-gateway terminology out of I-Ds and RFCs]
>
>
>Yes, please!  I've been using IPsec-style technology in peer-to-peer
>mode since before it was IPsec, and I've become very increasingly
>concerned by the apparently-growing tendency to think of IPsec as if
>the _only_ scope of IPsec is security gateways and VPNs.
>
>I've been wondering how to word a similar request for some weeks.

Jonathan,

VPNs are not the genesis of the terminology. The terms arose in the 
DoD context 50 years ago, well before there was a notion of VPNs.

Steve