On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:46 PM, Reinaldo Penno (repenno) <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are several paid VPN services that provide anonymity through
> addresses sharing. This is becoming more and more popular these days.
> 
> It is public to public translation where you get a shared IP address on
> purpose. This is not for attack purposes but just to reduce tracking by
> third-parties. 
> 
> I would think that people interested in these services will continue to
> use them but public IPv6 to public IPv6.

Sure, and those services won't log and won't emit any of the identifiers in 
RFC6967.

draft-boucadair-intarea-host-identifier-scenarios is trying to explain when 
such an identifier is useful; not when it isn't useful.

-d


> 
> On 3/7/14, 12:31 PM, "Dan Wing (dwing)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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-scena
>>>> rios-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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