> (though I'm not making an objection to what you're sayign) let me > clarify the issue (mostly for myself) once more. We're perhaps mixing > up host issues and application issues. In my understanding, > > 1. whether or not privacy is desired is a per-host (or > per-administrator) issue, not a per-application issue; if the main > user (likely the administrator) of a host really wants the privacy, > the user wants the privacy apply to all applications on the host, > even if some of the applications do not work well due to > the characteristics of temporary addresses.
I disagree. I think the user will want applications to work well even if that means giving them public addresses, and that it's probably safe to assume that for applications that do work with private addresses, users won't mind if those apps use them. > So, the specification should be: > > - the privacy extension draft should clearly say that it is optional > to (support and) configure temporary addresses and that the default > is not configuring temporary addresses. the draft should also > describe the troublesome cases with temporary addresses to > communicate the risk of using them for administrators. > - the address selection draft should say *if temporary addresses are > configured on the host* the temporary addresses should be preferred. > It should also note that whether or not configuring temporary > addresses are optional and the default is not configuring them. > - we'll not necessarily need a per-connection switch to change the > logic of preferring temporary or public addresses, because if we > want privacy or not is rather a per-host issue. we MAY add such a > knob, but it does not have to be a MUST. > > Can this be a compromise for this issue? completely disagree. there's every reason to let the app control whether it gets temporary addresses, and no justification that I can see for the per-host knob. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
