Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Mikael, On 09/03/2011 08:17 a.m., Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I recommend that folks read the above draft. I haven't seen the I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG, perhaps due to the volume of recent I-D postings, and the topic seems relevant. I don't think it solves what it

Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
Folks, I've just realized that I had submitted an old version of the I-D. So I've rev'ed the document and resubmitted it. -- The change log in the appendix describes the changes since version -00. Any comments will be more than welcome. P.S.: There's still quite a bit of text that we need to

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/03/2011 09:19 a.m., huabing yu wrote: (1)If H (Hardware-derived addresses) flag is 1, it indicates that the host SHOULD generate hardware-derived addresses, and doesn't generate privacy addresses. (2)If H (Hardware-derived addresses) flag is 0, the author say that this bit indicates

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/03/2011 11:57 a.m., Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: If you want to know the mac address of the computer who used an IP address at a certain time, then you need to tell the host to only use EUI64 based address and nothing else, you don't tell it to disable privacy extensions. This was

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Ran, On 09/03/2011 12:51 p.m., RJ Atkinson wrote: Just because privacy extensions is the only address widely seen today as being non-EUI64, doesn't mean that if you disable privacy, you get only single EUI64. The above is a very helpful clarification. Based on that, I agree with

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/03/2011 03:49 p.m., Brian E Carpenter wrote: I don't think it solves what it thinks it solves, but if this REALLY should be implemented, it's my initial thinking that the H flag should be a MUST demand to only have ONE and only one MAC-based IPv6 address according to EUI64. I would

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/03/2011 08:17 a.m., Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I recommend that folks read the above draft. I haven't seen the I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG, perhaps due to the volume of recent I-D postings, and the topic seems relevant. I don't think it solves what it thinks it

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Scott W Brim
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:01, Mark Townsley m...@townsley.net wrote: On Mar 11, 2011, at 3:32 AM, Christian Huitema wrote: I'm saying the reasons people are tempted to disable RFC4941 are misplaced. +1 Consider that if I want privacy and you won't let me use RFC4941, I might just make up

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread sthaug
Blue sky: Could the SP allow privacy addresses, at least for global use, and log its own mappings between privacy addressses and MACs or other persistent identifiers? Then it can always trace back to determine who did what if necessary. I'm sure service providers *could* do this. But it's

RE: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Christian Huitema
It doesn't. The I-D aims at allowing routers specify which policy they want hosts to employ when generating their IPv6 addresses. Uh? I definitely don't want to give the router at Starbucks the means to specify the privacy configuration of my laptop. I understand that corporation want to

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/12/2011 16:44, Christian Huitema wrote: It doesn't. The I-D aims at allowing routers specify which policy they want hosts to employ when generating their IPv6 addresses. Uh? I definitely don't want to give the router at Starbucks the means to specify the privacy configuration of my

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 12/03/2011 09:44 p.m., Christian Huitema wrote: It doesn't. The I-D aims at allowing routers specify which policy they want hosts to employ when generating their IPv6 addresses. Uh? I definitely don't want to give the router at Starbucks the means to specify the privacy configuration of

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, James, On 09/03/2011 04:08 p.m., james woodyatt wrote: About the H-bit in the PIO it proposes, the draft says this: When set, this bit indicates that hardware-derived addresses SHOULD be used when configuring IPv6 addresses as a result of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. When not

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:57:14 -0300 Fernando Gont ferna...@gont.com.ar wrote: On 12/03/2011 09:44 p.m., Christian Huitema wrote: It doesn't. The I-D aims at allowing routers specify which policy they want hosts to employ when generating their IPv6 addresses. Uh? I definitely don't want

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-12 Thread Ole Troan
It doesn't. The I-D aims at allowing routers specify which policy they want hosts to employ when generating their IPv6 addresses. Uh? I definitely don't want to give the router at Starbucks the means to specify the privacy configuration of my laptop. I understand that corporation want