At 10:41 AM -0400 8/27/02, Joe Baptista wrote: >However IPv6 has many privacy issues. 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.
Joe, This issue was addressed a *long* time ago -- please see http://playground.sun.com/ipv6/specs/ipv6-address-privacy.html from November of 1999. Your source has either a very shallow or out-of-date understanding of IPv6, or some reason to want to propagate misinformation. Thanks for checking here. Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
