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The changes proposed here do not affect public interfaces or otherwise interfere with backward compatibility

Proposed Changes

Two additional parameters would be added to the Kafka broker configuration.

security.ip.filter.rule.type
security.ip.filter.list

Proposed Changes

Administrators would list the type of filtering that they are implementing, either Whitelists - using the value "allow" or Blacklists - using the value "deny" and a list of IP Ranges represented in CIDR notation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing.

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