On 8/8/2012 11:30 AM, Dan Wing wrote: > Today's Internet users, which are not sharing addresses with other users, > are sending an uniquely-identifyable identifier to every Internet server > they use: their unique IP address.
Users don't have IP addresses. Machines do. Which are we trying to identify again? I think the distinction is important since the relation between users and devices can be one-to-many, or many-to-one, and certainly isn't one-to-one, even if we went back in time when the relation between end-host machines and addresses might have been closer to one-to-one. I also don't think user and subscriber are synonyms for many purposes, though some of the reveal-analysis seems to be more oriented towards identifying the access network subscriber. That subscriber generally may have quite a few users and machines behind them. -- Wes Eddy MTI Systems _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
