On 13 October 2016 at 21:23, Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com> wrote: > On 10/05/2016 09:09 PM, Dave Thaler wrote: >> The issue with IEEE MAC's is that it's sent to untrusted observers, not that >> it is a stable identifier per se. >> It just so happens that you typically don't have a choice but to send it in >> packets such that it can be observed >> by untrusted observers, hence the need to use randomized MACs. > > The issue with MAC addresses is that they are constant across networks > when, if anything, they just need to be stable within the same subnet. > > Besides, they have semantics (vendor ID) when in fact they need not. > > And well, the problem is exacerbated by IPv6 SLAAC traditionally > generating IPv6 IIDs by embedding the underlying MAC address into them...
Though RFC 4941 exists for this particular issue. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
