Hi,

Can you clarify, succinctly, what your proposal adds that you cannot achieve by 
a combination of 
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses/ and 
RFC4941?

It seems a key point is that 4941 "only" says SHOULD for the IID regeneration 
when the prefix changes.  Yet afaics all implementations do this?

Tim

On 23 May 2013, at 16:04, "Hosnieh Rafiee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Follow up,
>  
> I forgot to post the link to the draft :-)
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy
>  
> Thanks,
> Best,
> Hosnieh
>  
>  
>  
> I first want to thank Dave who took the time to read and comment on my draft 
> and to discuss the problems associated with it. Based on some offline 
> discussions with Dave, I have changed this document to better address the 
> current issues with RFC 4941 which are actually related to differences in 
> interpretation of the wording used in the that document. In many cases the 
> wording used gives implementations the choice of how best to accomplish the 
> goal which can lead to bad choices being made which negates the purpose of 
> the document. This draft is thus an update to the Privacy Extension document 
> and also, because it does not allow a node to generate and use an IID based 
> on a MAC address, an update to one section of RFC 4862 which pertains to this.
>  
> In this document an approach is recommend that doesn't make use MAC addresses 
> in the generation of public addresses. It does, in fact, endorse the use 
> other approaches that aren't based on the use of MAC addresses in the 
> generation of public addresses. Public addresses can be valid forever but it 
> is recommended that, for privacy purposes, a node not make use of public 
> addresses.
> The definition of public addresses here is the same as what Dave explained in 
> his last responses to the people on this list, i.e., the addresses that need 
> to have DNS records. In my opinion, these addresses are more useful for 
> servers than other nodes.
>  
> I appreciate your support and any and all comments that you might proffer.
>  
> Thank you,
> Best,
> Hosnieh
>  
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