On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:30:07 +0200 Joakim Aronius <joa...@aronius.com> wrote:
> * Hannes Frederic Sowa (han...@mailcolloid.de) wrote: > > > > But most people just don't care. My proposal is to have some kind of > > sane defaults for them e.g. changing their prefix every week or in the > > case of a reconnect. This would mitigate some of the many privacy > > concerns in the internet a little bit. Of course all the already known > > problems would still exist. And still people have to care about the > > technology to reach a higher level of anonymity. > > Ok. Lets assume that the ISP hands out new prefixes to the clients CPE each > week. The CPE then advertises these prefixes on the clients home network. For > clients accessing the internet this works fine (except perhaps a glitch > during the switchover). > > But what about the internal communication in the customer premises? How do > they connect to their NAS, media players, printers, TVs etc? Of course there > is UPnP, DLNA and different other kinds of magic but I imagine that most home > users actually configure IP addresses at some point. > > Constantly changing prefixes will ad another layer of complexity, things will > break, and customers will be upset. (and quite frankly I don't think that you > would gain that much privacy anyway) > ULA - RFC4193. (People really need to stop thinking in IPv4 mode when discussing IPv6 ....) > just my $.02 > > /Joakim >
