On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Steve Deering wrote: > 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 or out-of-date understanding of IPv6, or some reason to want to 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.
Only parts of "this issue" were properly fixed. Indeed, some (mostly related to user tracking) seem to be unfixable. Thanks for checking the rfc3041 considered harmful draft. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
