On 06/06/2013 03:40 PM, Alissa Cooper wrote: >> For instance, Section B.1 explicitly says so (and this type of >> attack is not meant to be solved by stable-privacy-addresses). >> >> In some scenarios, it can be mitigated with RFC 4941. Hoawever, as >> noted in Section C.4, even ith RFC4941 there are scenarios n which >> yu cannot do much about it. >> > > Maybe it's just an organizational thing that makes me feel like this > isn't clear -- in B.1 it says "However, as noted earlier in this > document, in scenarios in which there is a reduced number of nodes …" > but really that scenario is not discussed until later in the document > (C.4).
The corresponding paragraph was moved to the appendix in version -09 -- it was part of the Intro in previous versions. I will update the document accordingly. > Then appendix C says that "It aims to clarify the motivation > of employing the method specified in this document," but ends with > the attack described in C.4, which is not mitigated by the mechanism > specified in the document. As with the above, this is a product of the text that I moved to the Appendix > I realize how this organization came about > but it seems like it would make a little more sense to have each of > the distinct threat models clearly described in one place in the body > of the document, followed by a discussion of which threats the > mechanism mitigates and which it does not. I'd personally prefer this not to be in the body of the document. For the most part, because I think that we might benefit of a separate document that does an analysis of all IID generation techniques, rather than only this one (I had planned to wok on such a document even before this whole discussion came up). To some extent, including such whole discussion here looks a bit side-tracking. But I'd love to hear what you and others think about it. Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
