On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> a) Since this is fixing some of the damage done by NAT, it's
> really unfinished business for BEHAVE, which if iirc was a
> Transport Area WG. Just saying...
> 
> b) The word "privacy" doesn't appear in the draft. Discussing
> privacy aspects is clearly essential if there is any thought of
> advancing this work. Actually I doubt if such a host ID is ever
> going to be acceptable from a privacy point of view, unless the
> end system is at liberty to change it at random (like RFC 4941).

I interpret your statement to mean that address sharing is a desirable security 
property.  If that interpretation is correct, where does that leave IPv6?


> c) A hard-nosed argument is that since we want to sunset IPv4,
> it's time to stop working on ways of making NAT solutions work
> better. Is there anything in the use cases that can't be fixed by
> native IPv6?

Yes, attackers won't move to IPv6 if IPv4 provides them a superior way to hide 
their activities.  There are attackers already using IPv4 CGN to obfuscate 
themselves.

-d


> 
> (The use case in expired draft
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sarikaya-fmc-prefix-sharing-usecase-01
> is not at all convincing to me, especially when adding the privacy
> argument. It actually seems to describe a bug in 3GPP. But in any case,
> the draft appears to suggest mitigations.)
> 
> Regards
>   Brian
> 
> On 07/03/2014 05:28, joel jaeggli wrote:
>> Greetings int-area and hiaps-mailing-list folks,
>> 
>> I realize that this is midweek at the IETF, however this question is not
>> far from several discussions I've had this week.
>> 
>> I have been asked to consider AD sponsoring
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-boucadair-intarea-host-identifier-scenarios-04
>> 
>> In the process of  considering doing so I'd like to get some input with
>> respect to:
>> 
>> A. The appetite for pursuing some or any of this work in existing
>> working groups, and in particular within the INT area.
>> 
>> B. A consensus basis for moving beyond RFC 6269 into active work in this
>> area.
>> 
>> C. How we address concerns raised by the IETF community expressed
>> through  draft-farrell-perpass-attack when evaluating scenarios and
>> beginning to address requirements and solution-space.
>> 
>> Obviously these are complex questions and I do not expect that we will
>> arrive at answers easily nor does work on this or other drafts depend on
>> answering them, however it's part of the dialog.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> joel
>> 
>> 
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