Re: [Int-area] Last Call: (Logging recommendations for Internet facing servers) to BCP

2011-03-17 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: This is a late comment but I think it is worth raising it. => as the gen-art reviewer of the document I'd like to understand the comment. This I-D recommends to log the source port number for internet-facing servers. But due to the presence of load-b

Re: [Int-area] Last Call: (Logging recommendations for Internet facing servers) to BCP

2011-03-17 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Med: To understand the issue, I recommend you the following reading: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt Med: You can make a quick search on the XFF practices in load-balances/proxies to see how it is used for logging purposes

Re: [Int-area] draft-george-ipv6-required-01.txt --- what about IPsec ?

2011-03-29 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I fear "IPsec required for IPv6" would slow deployment of IPv6. => IMHO it doesn't matter as the IETF has *no* way to enforce such a thing: you can require IPv6 boxes to be blue with red points, it will have the same effect (other to show it is ridiculous :-).

Re: [Int-area] mic comments on draft-matsushima-v6ops-transition-experience

2011-03-30 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Is it not true, then, that the better multiplexing ratio disappears (while it is often presented as the main advantage of ISP's running the NATs instead of CPE's)? => IMHO this better multiplexing ratio is an illusion: it relies on a heterogeneous pop

Re: [Int-area] Scott Brim, intarea WG co-chair

2011-03-30 Thread Francis Dupont
Wellcome Scott! francis.dup...@fdupont.fr ___ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area

Re: [Int-area] Scott Brim, intarea WG co-chair

2011-03-30 Thread Francis Dupont
(oops, too happy, now with correct spelling :-) Welcome Scott! francis.dup...@fdupont.fr ___ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area

Re: [Int-area] IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Dupont
Perhaps I repeat myself but as far as I know solutions to the draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis problem are illegal at some places, in particular in European Union (and at a level which overrules national texts)... IMHO this issue should be clarified before adopting any document as a WG i

Re: [Int-area] IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I would argue the opposite: the IETF should completely discard this issue. Much of the rationale behind RFC 2804 would apply equally here. => it is a very different issue than wiretapping, here the problem is the proposed mechanisms are clearly agains

Re: [Int-area] RE : IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I don't know if you are talking about legal data storage or something else => no, I am talking about the privacy principle which is included in the European Convention on Human Rights and at the exception of the USA is in similar texts in all modern democra

Re: [Int-area] IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Are you saying that what draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis argues for cannot be implemented in the European Union? => IMHO it may be implemented but not be deployed, and I cited the European Union only because as a citizen I am supposed to kno

Re: [Int-area] RE : IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: As for your comment about IPv6, I'm afraid we have similar issues => no, in IPv6 we have RFC 4941 and the point of control is not at the same place (i.e., nobody trusts ISPs to protect privacy :-). Med: This is not the point. RFC4941 does no

Re: [Int-area] RE : IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-09 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: NEW: The volatility of the HOST_ID information is similar to the source IP address: a distinct HOST_ID may be used by the address sharing function when the host reboots or gets a new internal IP address. If the HOST_ID is assigned w

Re: [Int-area] RE : IPv4 address sharing abuse [was RE: draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]

2011-09-09 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: The enhance privacy that you consider *a rare benefit from the CGN* it is actually a BIG issue for a Service Provider, because we are quite often requested by the authorities to be able to track who was the user who did something and the only informati

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-15 Thread Francis Dupont
I share your concern about the (or the lack of real) privacy considerations. I know the IETF is still dominated by people from a country where privacy is not a fundamental right so can be considered as a side question. BTW I question if some authors (one lives in the same city than me so should sha

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Frankly, I find all this new-found privacy concern to be misplaced, => it is not new found, I raised the same issue at least at the last two IETF meetings. And BTW it is not really a technical issue, it is a legal one in many countries (I'd like to believe mos

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Technical objections would be useful. Please make some technical objections. => I'll be as friendly as you: don't make this kind of comments in public without looking at the history of the problem first. francis.dup...@fdupont.fr ___

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-17 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > If this privacy concern persists, ISP's will be required > to deploy CGN for privacy. We do not want that. => nobody wants that but it is the kind of things which can happen from privacy activists if we continue to provoque them in place to just not pay

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-17 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I have seen the concerns that you and Hannes have raised, and I have requested Alissa to help out the authors with the privacy aspects of this document. I can understand why you are objecting to the document being published as is, but I would like t

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-25 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I would like to point out that the author of the draft requested feedback on the ietf-privacy mailing list [1] (I could not find the original message is not in the archive). => yes, the author didn't receive the help we could expect to fix the privacy

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-25 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I think that Francis' point is that the authors are writing a specification which, if implemented, may be illegal to deploy in some jurisdictions. => the word "may" is the right one. If the spec should stay about technical stuff IMHO it is an error to

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-26 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: If and when a document describing the privacy considerations requirements has passed IETF review, sure. => to wait this document is published as a RFC to add a privacy consideration section to the nat-reveal I-D is no more reasonable to block all documen

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-26 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: This claim requires an adequate operationalization of "privacy". What exactly does one mean by this? Most of the claims I hear about it, including a number of the windy assertions that there is a fundamental right (whatever that is) to it, seem never

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-28 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Again, stop holding this doc to requirements that gave not been agereed by the IETF as a whole. => I clarified my objection to the nat-reveal document: I really want to get it with a privacy considerations section and I have no technical concerns about i

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-28 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: As a preliminary note, I will suggest to you that your quoting conventions ... => as I can't see a difference between mine and yours I suggest to address this in private. > >This claim requires an adequate operationalization of "privacy". What

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-28 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: As you know there is already a "Privacy" Section in the document: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04#section-1.2 => you refer to this statement: The HOST_ID does not reveal more privacy information than what the

Re: [Int-area] My comments on draft-boucadair-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 from the meeting

2011-11-28 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:36:45PM +0100, Francis Dupont wrote: > > > > => I (mis?)interpreted your message as asking for a formal > > definition of the term "privacy" so I tried to answer. > > I think I

[Int-area] about draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-01.txt

2012-03-29 Thread Francis Dupont
I still deeply dislike the reveal idea but at least the new version has a decent privacy implication part. As I don't want to get the IETF associated with names like Amesys or Blue Coat, I suggest to use only negative recommendations at the exception of one mechanism so nobody should be able to say

Re: [Int-area] Completion of working group last call for draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-02

2012-07-29 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > What analysis is missing from draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis > to weigh the drawbacks of the 8 solutions. => there are two kinds of drawbacks: the technical drawbacks and the not technical drawbacks, e.g., the impact on privacy... Note because if the

Re: [Int-area] Completion of working group last call for draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-02

2012-07-30 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > You keep saying "privacy", but without explaining the problem or > how IPv4 address sharing makes privacy better or worse than IPv6. => there are two levels about the privacy problem: the technical one which is explained/addressed in the draft (section 4) and