> -----Original Message----- > From: Fernando Gont [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:13 PM > To: Dave Thaler > Cc: Alissa Cooper; [email protected]; Brian Haberman; > [email protected]; Ray Hunter; tom.petch; Christian Huitema; He Xuan > Subject: Re: Comments on draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-07 > > Dave, > > What does draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses has to do with CGAs?
1) Both give "random-per-network" addresses, using Alissa's terminology. 2) Both generate an IP address using a secret + a network prefix + a DAD counter + other information. So it comes down to what was claimed, which I don't know offhand. > Has MS or Ericsson patented the use of PRFs? Pseudorandom functions themselves are well known. Some folks (don't know) might have patented using PRFs in novel ways to do specific things. > Have you guys any IPR on RFC1948? -- Because draft-ietf-6man-stableprivacy- > addresses is essentially Bellovin's > RFC1948 applied to IPv6 addresses. I'm not personally familiar with RFC1948 so will leave that to others to answer. -Dave > > Thanks, > Fernando > > > > > On 05/25/2013 12:43 AM, Dave Thaler wrote: > > It also now occurs to me that since RFC 3972 has IPR disclosures from > > both Microsoft and Ericsson, those disclosures may or may not apply to > > draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses as well. > > > > Per the Note Well, I'm at least sending this email, but will check > > with Microsoft folks to see whether an IPR statement would be needed > > on this draft (personally I have no clue). > > > > I'd suggest that any Ericsson folks paying attention might need to do the > same. > > > -- > Fernando Gont > SI6 Networks > e-mail: [email protected] > PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
