STARK, BARBARA H <[email protected]> wrote: > in which case we can and should re-discuss) is: Some users like to give > their devices pretty/friendly names. We need to make sure that's > possible, but not required. Others will simply accept whatever name > the device comes with. These names are visible to users and should not > be confused with credentials or a stable identity. But they do need to > be unique. Stable identity is also needed.
This is essentially correct, but it feels a bit weak to me.
Given that devices wind up with pretty/friendly names, and that those name
can change for a variety of reasons, we REQUIRE stable identity as well as
pretty names.
Users need to be able to connect policies (including, but not just security
policies) to both pretty names ("the office printer"), and to stable
identies. Neither thing should have anything to do with IP addresses
(which get renumbered), nor to MAC addresses (which may be more frequently
randomized, even for things like printers).
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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