>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Scott Brim <s...@internet2.edu> wrote: >> I have the usual concerns about privacy. I have no problem with someone >> knowing the endpoint that is communicating is associated with a vehicle >> (or that I, a human, am communicating from a vehicle). However, if >> someone can map easily from an IP address to a VIN (thus knowing the >> specific vehicle from which the communication is happening), and I have >> no choice but to reveal that information in order to communicate at all, >> I am not comfortable. In general, as an architectural principle, I want >> the option to control how much personal information I reveal. That's >> called privacy. > >Actual the problem is much simpler, it's not that easy to get the >unique ID of a vehicle today, however with the proposed solution it >become extremely easy. >Sort of the same idea that caused IPv6 to create all IPs based on the >mac address... we know how that ended, we created the privacy option. > >Do we want todo it all over again? >
=> Someone, somewhere (perhaps the IAB) needs to write an architectural document to tell various industries to _stop_ doing that. The IID is a set of bits that have no meaning, please stop trying to create it in an industry/link layer technology-specific manner. It does do anything and it's meaningless. If you want the correspondent to know that you're a car with a particular VIN then put that in your application! Hesham > > >-- > >Roger Jorgensen | ROJO9-RIPE >rog...@gmail.com | - IPv6 is The Key! >http://www.jorgensen.no | ro...@jorgensen.no >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >ipv6@ietf.org >Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
