Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino writes:
>
> >Thanks for the interesting draft. (Was this discussed
> >at the interim and were there any notes taken?)
>
> i hope that there's a note, there was a highly active discussions
> (partly because the draft kept many options open).
>
> >One issue should perhaps also be taken up in the context
> >of IPv6 and PPP. As we are moving (gprs etc) towards a
> >more always-on world, it is possible that I run a PPP link,
> >for instance, between my PDA and a GPRS terminal basically
> >as a permanent connection. Do I want to retain the same
> >address on it all the time, or should I be able to run
> >the privacy extension (RFC 3041) over PPP as well? I.e.
> >even in the static addressing model that you mention there
> >may be needs to change the address for privacy reasons.
>
> basically the above highly depends on the assuption you make for
> address assignments to PDA/GPRS devices.
> if you follow "allocate /64 to the network behind the device" model
> (2nd bullet in section 2.4), you can generate new source address out
> of the given /64 at will.
Er, that doesn't strike me as especially private. If there's
a named device at that /64, I can pretty much use that subnet
prefix to triangulate who the manufactured address is. I assume
that many/most widgets will be named since they want to recieve
INVITE's, and other peer-peer services.
Mike
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