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Subject: Re: Terminology (was: Slip past the firewall?)
From: paul @ hawksbill . sprintmrn . com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 20:50:19 -0500 (EST)
To: fitz @ wang . com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199504212331 . AA07241 @ fnord . wang . com> from "Tom Fitzgerald" at Apr 21, 95 07:31:02 pm

> 
> I like "Neutral zone" myself, and had that in my /etc/networks file for a
> year before switching to DMZ under the weight of public opinion.  It
> implies that entry by one party is considered suspicious unless it's
> approved in advance by the other party.  Unfortunately it also implies a
> symmetry that isn't there, since the network really is owned by one party.
> 
> But regarding "black" and "red" - I always thought that "black" networks
> were secured and classified information could be transferred across them,
> and "red" networks were the ones that had to be assumed to contain possible
> intruders.  Do I have this backwards?
> 
>


I always like 'perimeter network' myself. <shrug>

- paul

 
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Paul Ferguson                         
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