RFC3484 (which references RFC3041) "Temporary addresses" are a menace to fault finding, audit, logging, firewall rules, filtering, QoS matching, conformance: anywhere where an ACL or stable address is used today. Sure we shouldn't use fixed/stable IP literals, but we do. And in many cases there aren't any practical alternatives in today's products, so the IP address is the lowest common denominator used to identify a machine (and dare I say even "a user" in some circumstances).
Also not sure if any DHCPv6 server implementations actually provide DHCPv6 assigned temporary addresses in practice.
My take on this is that a set of a few hundred individual persons who are worried about privacy are more likely to be able to control their own particular machines to correctly override the "default off" setting than a single corporate network manager is to be able to guarantee overriding a "default on" setting on 100% of 10000 machines attached to their network.
regards, RayH Brian Haberman wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed">All,The chairs would like to get a sense of the working group on changing the current (defined 3484) model of preferring public addresses over privacy addresses during the address selection process. RFC 3484 prefers public addresses with the ability (MAY) of an implementation to reverse the preference. The suggestion has been made to reverse that preference in 3484bis (prefer privacy addresses over public ones). Regardless, the document will allow implementers/users to reverse the default preference.Please state your preference for one of the following default options :A. Prefer public addresses over privacy addresses B. Prefer privacy addresses over public addresses Regards, Brian, Bob, & Ole</div>
-- Ray Hunter [email protected] Globis Consulting BV, Fazantlaan 23, 5613CB Eindhoven NL, Registered at the KvK, Eindhoven, under number BV 17098279 mobile: +31 620 363864
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