Hello, I just want to underline what Thomas is saying. See bellow:
> -----Original Message----- > From: ext Thomas Narten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:58 AM > To: Joe Baptista > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic > > > Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However IPv6 has many privacy issues. > > Actually, your note mentions 1 (not many) issues. Morever, the issue > you raise is false as stated. > > > IPv6 address space uses an ID > > (indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone. "That > allows your > > packets to be traced back to your PC or cell-phone" said <censored>. > > <censored> fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 > protocol can > > be used to determine the manufacturer, make and model > number, and value > > of the hardware equipment being used by the end user. > > Seems to me that your "<censored> <censored>" is not particularly > knowledgable about this issue. You might ask your source if they are > familiar with RFC 3041. I agree with Thomas. In cellular networks (at least in the 3GPP specified ones), the Interface Identifier is given by the GGSN, picked by the phone, or RFC3041 type IDs are used. So, this statement does not apply to those. Cheers, Jonne. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
