Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Scott Brim
Thanks, SM, for finding what I said back in 2010. I still think this is architected wrong, conflating devices with communication endpoints higher up the stack, and steers us toward a path toward eventually needing to reduce privacy even more. However, 3GPP has apparently already already started

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread GARBA KORA TAMSIRD BELLO
Hi Yes it true , but more argumentations are welcome Sinverely yours 2013/7/20, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com: Thanks, SM, for finding what I said back in 2010. I still think this is architected wrong, conflating devices with communication endpoints higher up the stack, and steers us

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread S Moonesamy
At 15:53 19-07-2013, Andrew Allen wrote: Do you not think that the text in the security considerations section:: because IMEIs can be loosely correlated to a user, they need to be treated as any other personally identifiable information. In particular, the IMEI URN MUST NOT be included in

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. Borrowing from several other notes and comments, it seems to me that we have three interlocking issues that keep recurring and producing long discussions. They are by no means independent of this particular draft, but seem to be becoming generic. (1) Are we willing to publish (or even

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Stephen Farrell
Wrt privacy in general... On 07/20/2013 02:56 PM, John C Klensin wrote: Any volunteers to get in front of the mic lines? I'd welcome that discussion. I'd love to see us have a BCP61-like [1] RFC on the topic of privacy and I also reckon that that'd help short-cut a number of IETF LCs and

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Scott Brim
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: Wrt privacy in general... On 07/20/2013 02:56 PM, John C Klensin wrote: Any volunteers to get in front of the mic lines? I'd welcome that discussion. I'd love to see us have a BCP61-like [1] RFC on the

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 20, 2013 15:51 +0100 Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: ... But, even if the outcome wasn't a BCP along the lines I'd prefer, I think such a beast would still be worth having if it meant we could avoid a whole lot of these kinds of similar discussions on

Mentoring Electronic Participants [was Invitation to request an IETF mentor]

2013-07-20 Thread Hector Santos
Overall, I think the IETF has a marketing problem addressing its #1 customer base - electronic participants. I was somewhat hoping to see more done in the mentor area of assisting electronic participants. Of coarse, this sort of electronic mentoring it could include an end goal to get folks

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 07/20/2013 04:06 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: Wrt privacy in general... On 07/20/2013 02:56 PM, John C Klensin wrote: Any volunteers to get in front of the mic lines? I'd welcome that discussion. I'd love

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 07/20/2013 04:31 PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Saturday, July 20, 2013 15:51 +0100 Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: ... But, even if the outcome wasn't a BCP along the lines I'd prefer, I think such a beast would still be worth having if it meant we could avoid a

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
The URN containing the IMEI is used by all mobile phones that support voice over LTE. It is a dependency for 3GPP release 8 (which was completed about end of 2008). So yes it is going to be used and its more than 3 years of 3GPP work invested and is already incorporated into many devices. In

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
So if it’s going to be used, exactly as specified, whatever we do, then what value is added by the IETF process? -T On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Andrew Allen aal...@blackberry.comwrote: The URN containing the IMEI is used by all mobile phones that support voice over LTE. It is a

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Tim The quote is from RFC 5626 which also states: 3.1. Summary of Mechanism Each UA has a unique instance-id that stays the same for this UA even if the UA reboots or is power cycled. Since the UUID in the instance ID is also static how is this significantly different in terms of privacy

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Allen aal...@blackberry.com wrote: The quote is from RFC 5626 which also states: 3.1. Summary of Mechanism Each UA has a unique instance-id that stays the same for this UA even if the UA reboots or is power cycled. Since the UUID in the instance ID

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Tim Mobile phones are not usually completely factory reset if resold and even if they were a UUID may still have been stored in non volatile as it may have been generated during final test. In any case if the IMEI was to persist after a resale how would that be a privacy problem given the

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. From: Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 01:36 PM Central Standard Time To: Andrew Allen Cc: scott.b...@gmail.com scott.b...@gmail.com; sm+i...@elandsys.com sm+i...@elandsys.com; ietf@ietf.org

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
Except that for normal usages at the application level, the UUID is generated by the app and placed in its private per-app storage, which is always erased on a factory-reset. To Andrew Allen: I strongly recommend factory-resetting your phone before you sell it, and also factory-resetting any

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/20/2013 01:48 PM, Andrew Allen wrote: I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. I think backfilling registrations for poached identifiers sets a bad/dangerous example. Doug (not necessarily speaking with any hats, current or former)

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Equivalence is equivalence the rest seems subjective to me - is the glass half full or half empty. The point is they are no more or less harmful. Can it please be explained how the IMEI URN when used as stated in http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allen-dispatch-imei-urn-as-instanceid/ Is

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Martin There are obviously always alternative design choices but why would you want to include both a pre assigned device ID and a generated device ID in the same message? Andrew - Original Message - From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thom...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Tim This is not the normal 3GPP IMS scenario. In IMS the device as a whole is considered as a single UA, multiple IMS applications will need to share a common registration procedure that is provided by the underlying OS. Otherwise multiple IMS registrations from different applications on a

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Randy Bush
I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. let me ask the other side of the coin, in this case, what harm will be done by not making this an rfc and registering the imei uri? and i am not a fan of the mrs goldberg argument. randy

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/20/2013 03:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. let me ask the other side of the coin, in this case, what harm will be done by not making this an rfc and registering the imei uri? None, because we lost the battle over protocol parameter

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Randy Are you suggesting its not a problem if everyone were to just go off and define namespaces and not have them registered with IANA? I don't think that's a good precedence. The GSMA is the authoritative organisation for some identifers that have been used in billions of mobile devices

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 20, 2013 15:19 -0700 Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 07/20/2013 01:48 PM, Andrew Allen wrote: I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. I think backfilling registrations for poached identifiers sets a bad/dangerous example. Doug, This is

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Andrew, At 13:48 20-07-2013, Andrew Allen wrote: I think IANA registration of namespaces has a lot of value. draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16 discusses about two namespaces: (i) gsma (ii) imei It is not possible to get a IANA registration for (ii) as according to

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Allen aal...@blackberry.com wrote: Can it please be explained how the IMEI URN when used as stated in http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allen-dispatch-imei-urn-as-instanceid/ Is any more harmful than as the IMEI is used today by over 90% of mobile

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:36 -0700 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: So if it's going to be used, exactly as specified, whatever we do, then what value is added by the IETF process? -T See my earlier note, but mostly to aid in getting the documentation right. For example, to the

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
Fair enough. I think it would be reasonable to ask that: - the draft include the word “privacy” - the draft discuss the issues around relying on an identifier that persists across changes in device ownership There may be an issue concerning a SIP-related identifier which is unavailable on

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 20, 2013 19:17 -0700 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Fair enough. I think it would be reasonable to ask that: - the draft include the word privacy - the draft discuss the issues around relying on an identifier that persists across changes in device ownership

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi John, At 18:23 20-07-2013, John C Klensin wrote: See my earlier note, but mostly to aid in getting the documentation right. For example, to the extent that the recent discussion results in a more complete treatment of privacy and/or security considerations in the documentation, that is a net

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Tim Firstly as stated in http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allen-dispatch-imei-urn-as-instanceid/ the use of the IMEI as a SIP Instance ID only pertains to usage of SIP with the 3GPP IMS and if a device is not using IMS sing IMS without an IMEI uses IMS then it will still use a UUID as the

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Allen
Certainly text can be added to the draft to address concerns. Could Tim please elaborate on what issues he sees when a device is transferred between owners and what potential uses of the URN he has a concern with? Certainly I can see that if it was used as address that had some permanence