On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:35 PM, huabing yu wrote:
> 
> Do you have some advice?

The current revision of the draft contains a normative reference to RFC 4941 
but it doesn't seem to have any language in section 2.3 specifying host 
behavior that would prevent it from using any other sort of statelessly 
autoconfigured addresses that would pose the same problem for network 
administrators that privacy addresses do, i.e. make it difficult to identify 
authoritatively which host is the originator of any particular traffic given 
only the source addresses in the captured IPv6 headers.  It just says, hosts 
MUST have a conceptual variable that controls whether they generate temporary 
addresses.  That doesn't prevent them from generating persistent ones that pose 
the same problem for network administrators as RFC 4941 privacy addresses.

I think some wordsmithing is still required here.  I have no useful advice for 
how to do that because I'm not entirely sure I understand what this draft is 
hoping to accomplish, much less how it hopes to do it.


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james woodyatt <[email protected]>
member of technical staff, core os networking



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