The IESG has received a request from the MAC Address Device Identification for Network and Application Services WG (madinas) to consider the following document: - 'Randomized and Changing MAC Address: Context, Network Impacts and Use Cases' <draft-ietf-madinas-use-cases-12.txt> as Informational RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2024-11-28. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract To limit the privacy issues created by the association between a device, its traffic, its location, and its user, client and client Operation System vendors have started implementing MAC address randomization. When such randomization happens, some in-network states may break, which may affect network connectivity and user experience. At the same time, devices may continue using other stable identifiers, defeating the MAC address randomization purposes. This document lists various network environments and a set of network services that may be affected by such randomization. This document then examines settings where the user experience may be affected by in-network state disruption. Last, this document examines solutions to maintain user privacy while preserving user quality of experience and network operation efficiency. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-madinas-use-cases/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
