The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Randomized and Changing MAC Address: Context, Network Impacts, and Use Cases' (draft-ietf-madinas-use-cases-19.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the MAC Address Device Identification for Network and Application Services Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-madinas-use-cases/ Technical Summary To limit the privacy issues created by the association between a device, its traffic, its location, and its user, client and client Operation System vendors have started implementing MAC address randomization. When such randomization happens, some in-network states may break, which may affect network connectivity and user experience. At the same time, devices may continue using other stable identifiers, defeating the MAC address randomization purposes. This document lists various network environments and a set of network services that may be affected by such randomization. This document then examines settings where the user experience may be affected by in-network state disruption. Last, this document examines solutions to maintain user privacy while preserving user quality of experience and network operation efficiency. Working Group Summary The WG consensus represent broad agreement, relative to the size of active participants of the WG. It also counts with the support of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), which has different members as participants to the MADINAS WG and some liaisons. No controversy in the WG, rather lack of energy though. Document Quality No implementation per se as the document describes some use cases (hence related implementations). Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Carlos J. Bernardos. The Responsible Area Director is Éric Vyncke. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
