Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-26 Thread Fernando Gont
On 05/24/2013 03:32 PM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > about RFC 4941. You just used the current implementations with their current > problems. The reason that I wrote this draft was that the "stable addresses" > wanted to keep its IID within the same network and not assign several IIDs > within the same

Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/25/2013 09:06 AM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: As I explained in my answer to Ray in my last message, if monitoring and other things are your first priority, then you can use another approach rather than that of RFC 4941. But you cannot say that this RFC will not be used in future because we thin

RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-25 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
> I work primarily with customers who implement networks inside their own > borders. Ray is 100% correct that stable addressing for end users is a very high > priority for things like access control, accountability, reporting, SOX, etc. > Whether or not it should be so is an entirely different q

RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-25 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
> At our site we do just this; an SNMP-based tool harvests IP/MAC/port data from > the switches,routers etc. I agree that it works very well. > > That said, I expect quite a few (enterprise) sites will try to disable 4941. Or if > they use ULAs as well, to disable for ULAs for internal traffic. T

Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/24/2013 08:17 AM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: I just wonder why, when you can use a monitoring system to log all your events (MAC + IP) when you are inside a corporate network, you see this as a big issue. I work primarily with customers who implement networks inside their own borders. Ray is

Re: RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Ray Hunter
Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: >>> In corporate environments it is very important that cross-correlation >>> of log events can occur to support various operational processes (also >>> over longer periods of time and for examining historical records). >>> IPv4 did not randomly rotate end node identifiers i

Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Tim Chown
Comments in-line... On 24 May 2013, at 16:17, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > > I just wonder why, when you can use a monitoring system to log all your > events (MAC + IP) when you are inside a corporate network, you see this as a > big issue. You can also rotate your logs so that a large amount of stor

RE: RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
> > > I have read this draft and I don't particularly like it for several operational > reasons. > > 1) Use of purely random unpredictable IIDs appears to impose an ISP model of > working where there is no trust relationship between the end node and the > network infrastructure. > > In corporate

RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
Hi Tim, >Can you clarify, succinctly, what your proposal adds that you cannot achieve by a combination of http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses/  and RFC4941? I do not want to open up the old discussion here again. If you use RFC 4941 or in other word you enable

RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
> > In corporate environments it is very important that cross-correlation > > of log events can occur to support various operational processes (also > > over longer periods of time and for examining historical records). > > IPv4 did not randomly rotate end node identifiers in an uncorrelated > > ma

Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Tim Chown
On 23 May 2013, at 18:36, Ray Hunter wrote: > > In corporate environments it is very important that cross-correlation of > log events can occur to support various operational processes (also over > longer periods of time and for examining historical records). IPv4 did > not randomly rotate end n

Re: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-24 Thread Tim Chown
Hi, Can you clarify, succinctly, what your proposal adds that you cannot achieve by a combination of http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses/ and RFC4941? It seems a key point is that 4941 "only" says SHOULD for the IID regeneration when the prefix changes. Y

Re: RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-23 Thread Ray Hunter
Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > > follow up to the follow up: > > sorry, I sent the wrong link the last time. this is the correct link: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy > > :-| it is not my day…… :-/ > > Hosnieh > I have read this draft and I don't particularly like it for seve

RE: Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-23 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
follow up to the follow up: sorry, I sent the wrong link the last time. this is the correct link: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy :-| it is not my day.. :-/ Hosnieh IETF IPv6 working group m

Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-23 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
Follow up, I forgot to post the link to the draft :-) http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy Thanks, Best, Hosnieh I first want to thank Dave who took the time to read and comment on my draft and to discuss the problems associated with it. Based on some

Router advertisement based privacy - I-D: Action :draft-rafiee-6man-ra-privacy

2013-05-23 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
I first want to thank Dave who took the time to read and comment on my draft and to discuss the problems associated with it. Based on some offline discussions with Dave, I have changed this document to better address the current issues with RFC 4941 which are actually related to differences in inte