On 06/07/2015 08:33, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Brian E Carpenter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>    Stateless assignment based on Modified EUI64 interface identifiers
>>>    [RFC4291] SHOULD be used for address assignment whenever possible,
>>
>> This is new and problematic. EUI64 is pretty much deprecated now, see
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy-07
>> (in IETF Last Call) for background, and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-04 for
>> the way forward.
> 
> Oy. One of the things I rely on is mark 1 eyeball when a device is
> renumbered, or has multiple ipv6 addresses. Recognizing the std SLAAC
> hex vomit pattern is VERY hard, but at least I can find things
> again....
> 
> Lacking any decent naming support is a real PITA when your lower level
> identifiers are random and changing all the time.

Yep. That is of course the intended effect from a privacy point of view.
I expect that enterprise network managers will hate it too.

Please not shoot messenger.

   Brian

>>>    otherwise (e.g., for IPv4) the following method MUST be used instead:
>>>    For any assigned prefix for which SLAAC cannot be used, the first
>>>    quarter of the addresses are reserved for routers HNCP based address
>>>    assignments, whereas the last three quarters are left to the DHCPv6
>>
>> That would only be acceptable, I think, if you also specify that 
>> pseudo-random
>> allocation is used within the 1/4 and 3/4 of the addresses (referring
>> to IPv6 only).
>>
>>    Brian
>>
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