Linux (Fedora 25) and MacOS (Sierra) at least, it’s still using stable 
addresses based on MAC address.

Owen

> On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:28 PM, David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don't know if its a majority of devices yet, but with RFC8064 the use of 
> IIDs based on MAC addresses are no longer recommended, and stable addresses 
> are recommended to be generated on based on RFC7217.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8064 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8064>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217>
> 
> Now it will take a while for new code to completely permeate the industry, 
> but I believe the latest updated for Windows, MAC OS, iOS, and Android, all 
> use this new standard.  I have anecdotal evidence, by playing with my iPhone 
> that was just upgraded to iOS11 that it support this standard.  I don't 
> remember if this was a feature added iOS 10.X or not.
> 
> I believe it is safe to say the majority of new devices no longer use an IID 
> based on a MAC address.  Other than the MAC address of the interface is one 
> of the seeds into the pseudo-random algorithm.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 19, 2017, at 1:28 PM, Leif Sawyer <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> The majority of devices no longer register on SLAAC with MAC-bound addresses.
> 
> Technically, this isn’t true.
> 
> The majority of devices now register both one or more privacy addresses _AND_ 
> a MAC-bound address. The MAC-bound address on such devices is not used as a 
> preferred or primary address for originating sessions, but can be used (if 
> known by the remote device) as a stable address to connect to services 
> provided by the host.
>  
>> Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6”, which 
>> is codified in RFC 4941
>> means randomly generated addresses on a rotating basis.
>>  
>> You could disable SLAAC-PE, and get "effectively static" IPv6 - but it's 
>> really not.
> 
> I think the better consideration is that when we talk of allocation and/or 
> assignment, we are talking of the allocation/assignment of network numbers 
> end not of host-portions to end devices. As such, I don’t think that the 
> blurring Albert perceives as being created by SLAAC truly exists regardless 
> of whether it is static or not.
> 
> Owen
> 
>>  
>> Leif
>>  
>>  
>> From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:[email protected] 
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>> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 3:25 AM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Revised - Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Improved IPv6 
>> Registration Requirements
>>  
>> [External Email] 
>> 
>> Placing ISP/LIR in place of ISP might be the best way to avoid confusion. 
>> As has been pointed out, they are really one and the same.
>> 
>> Otherwise, I think that everything else about the draft is good and 
>> support.
>> 
>> One thing to consider for future discussion is that because of the nature 
>> of IPv6, and its end-to-end nature, and assignment of public addresses, 
>> that the difference between allocate and assign using IPv6 on a specific 
>> /64 segment used for public wifi or otherwise is becoming more fluid.
>> 
>> With SLAAC, an address is formed in part using a MAC address, which 
>> according to the rules for MAC addresses is supposed to be unique. It 
>> could be argued that these addresses are in effect "static", which could 
>> be argued is an assignment of part of the host network's /64, in effect a 
>> static /128 of that network. Due to the rules of SLAAC this happens 
>> without involvement of the host network, other than router advertisements, 
>> since the MAC originates from the guest device, as a different device will 
>> have a different MAC address.
>> 
>> The requirement of at least a /64 in the proposed 6.5.5.4 is good in that 
>> end user networks that have SLAAC cannot be required to register the /128 
>> associated with someones MAC address on their request. Since this limit 
>> is in the proposal, I think we do not need to address the fact that end 
>> user networks running IPv6 and SLAAC in effect are assigning addresses to 
>> end user devices, even though they are not supposed to do this unless the 
>> addresses were allocated to them like an ISP/LIR. Unlike DHCP6, which has 
>> a time limit, one could argue that SLAAC addresses are static.
>> 
>> Something to think about.
>> 
>> Albert Erdmann
>> Network Administrator
>> Paradise On Line Inc.
>> 
>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> 
>> > I refer you to section 6.5.1…
>> >
>> > 6.5.1. Terminology
>> >
>> > The terms ISP and LIR are used interchangeably in this document and any 
>> > use of either term shall be construed to include both meanings.
>> > The term nibble boundary shall mean a network mask which aligns on a 4-bit 
>> > boundary (in slash notation, /n, where n is evenly divisible by 4, 
>> > allowing unit quantities of X such that 2^n=X where n is evenly divisible 
>> > by 4, such as 16, 256, 4096, etc.)
>> >
>> > While it is a little unusual to have definitions outside of section 2, 
>> > these were placed here in section 6.5.1 in order to avoid potential 
>> > conflicts with certain language that was in section 4 at the time of 
>> > writing.
>> >
>> > Owen
>> >
>> >> On Sep 18, 2017, at 1:14 PM, John Santos <[email protected] 
>> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 9/18/2017 10:37 AM, ARIN wrote:
>> >>> The following has been revised:
>> >>>
>> >>> * Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Improved IPv6 Registration Requirements
>> >> [snip]
>> >>
>> >>> 4) Add new section 6.5.5.4 "Registration Requested by Recipient" of the 
>> >>> NRPM, to read: "If the downstream recipient of a static assignment of 
>> >>> /64 or more addresses requests publishing of that assignment in ARIN's 
>> >>> registration database, the ISP should register that assignment as 
>> >>> described in section 6.5.5.1."
>> >>
>> >> I have been under the impression that a common goal of most people 
>> >> proposing NRPM changes is to eliminate the use of the term "ISP", since 
>> >> it is not defined in the policy and most or all the relevant sections 
>> >> also apply to other organizations that, while they re-allocate or 
>> >> reassign address space, are not, properly speaking, ISPs. Shouldn't this 
>> >> says "LIR" or "provider" or some other more generic term?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> [snip]
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> John Santos
>> >> Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
>> >> 781-861-0670 ext 539 <tel:(781)%20861-0670>
>> >>
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