Subject: [midcom] Questions

From: "Saqib Jang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:34:28 -0800

I've recently joined the midcom mailing list 
and have a couple of quick questions.

Are there specific assumptions being made in the
midcom work about where the boxes with application
intelligence (e.g. gatekeepers) and middle boxes
reside? Specifically, is the assumption that both
types of systems will be on the same side of a firewall
or on different sides of a firewall. I'm concerned about
the security implications of a middlebox being "controlled" by a 
GK-type of box that is in a different IP network? Plus the middlebox
protocol would itself need to be able to easily traverse firewalls.

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