> => Sure. This is still allowed when following the 
  > paragraph in the draft. The draft is referring to
  > the PPP negotiation, which is concerned with the 
  > interface id for link local addresses only. There is
  > no mandate to use the same iid for other scopes
  > of adresses. So privacy is still preserved for addresses
  > with scopes larger than the link scope. 


  > I saw a privacy comment in the past (sorry, can't source 
  > the original
  > author) that suggested that because of the procedure for 
  > address assignment
  > where only one host allocates addresses within the prefix 
  > that there was no
  > privacy benefit to regenerating interface identifier portion of the
  > addresses since (for example) traffic analysis would just 
  > be done on prefix
  > matching. 
  > 
  > Does this (paraphrased) assessment seem correct? I wouldn't 
  > want 3GPP to
  > mandate a behaviour that they would believe contributed to 
  > identity privacy
  > but, based on some other procedure, did not.

=> But the person tracking would have to know 
that the host is a 3GPP host. Otherwise, they
won't know that it has a prefix for itself. 
BTW, this is not specific to 3GPP, the same 
can be done with home networks. A house that
gets a /48 can also be tracked by the same method. 

Hesham



  > 
  > 
  > Craig.
  > 
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