Before I answer, let me distinguish 'privacy' from 'confidentiality'. I would lump issues concerning disclosure of subscriber information under 'privacy', and issues concerning disclosure of network topology etc under 'confidentiality'.
> if the network map which discloses the IP prefixes under each PID defined in the ALTO protocol base draft okay with them The sensitivity of the information may depend on the size and scope of the PID. If the PID encompasses all of the ISP's prefixes, that information may be available from sources other than ALTO. For example, someone may use 'whois' information (e.g. https://ws.arin.net/whois) or a BGP looking glass (e.g. http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses or http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/lg/index.cgi) to obtain ISP prefix information. If the PID is limited to prefixes in a particular metropolitan area, that information might not be easily gleaned from public data sources and might be considered confidential by the ISP. If the PID represents prefixes associated with customers having a particular service tier, then there may or may not be privacy implications about revealing this information. Hope this helps. -- Rich -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of songhaibin 64081 Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [alto] ALTO privacy again Hi, Just want to get some feedback from the network operators, if the network map which discloses the IP prefixes under each PID defined in the ALTO protocol base draft okay with them, or if they are willing to avoid this. Thanks, Haibin _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
