Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions

2011-04-01 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
Hi all, I do agree with Fernando that we need to be more clear on the trust models that we apply ( I don't think this is an issue only on 6man, it's a general thing ). If we distrust some network element, then we distrust it for *any* purpose, not just for this or that bit. In this particular

RE: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions

2011-04-01 Thread Christian Huitema
[mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 12:58 AM To: Fernando Gont Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions Hi all, I do agree with Fernando that we need to be more clear on the trust models that we apply

draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions

2011-03-30 Thread Fernando Gont
Folks, At the 6man wg meeting, the aforementioned I-D was deemed as a very bad idea, because of its privacy implications. My question is: what's the trust model that leads to that conclusion? I mean, a host doing SLAAC trusts the router about the prefix to be configured, default route, various

FW: comment on draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01

2011-03-28 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
Humble apologies that I meant to send this email to 6man but instead sent it to v6ops. Hemant From: Hemant Singh (shemant) Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:02 AM To: IPv6 Ops WG Subject: comment on draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01 In some certain large-scale broadband

Re: FW: comment on draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01

2011-03-28 Thread Fernando Gont
On 28/03/2011 05:06 a.m., Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: In some certain large-scale broadband networks, an RA does not even include any PIO, so how will this document signal new bits? I guess that those networks employ something else for host configuration? (e.g., DHCP) -- If that's the case,

Upcoming revision of draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions

2011-03-25 Thread Fernando Gont
-generation/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-02b.txt * PDF format: http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/address-generation/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-02b.pdf For your convenience, the diff between this upcoming rev and the last posted version (-01) is available here: http

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

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:30:48 -0300 Fernando Gont ferna...@gont.com.ar wrote: On 16/03/2011 01:51 p.m., Brian Haley wrote: I have an almost off-topic comment, but since I've seen no mention of it in any of these privacy threads... You have to assume in a large data center that almost

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

2011-03-24 Thread Fernando Gont
On 16/03/2011 01:51 p.m., Brian Haley wrote: I have an almost off-topic comment, but since I've seen no mention of it in any of these privacy threads... You have to assume in a large data center that almost every MAC address you encounter is going to be randomly generated. Are they

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

2011-03-18 Thread Fernando Gont
On 16/03/2011 09:48 a.m., Mohacsi Janos wrote: As RFC 4941 says: Changed the default setting for usage of temporary addresses to be disabled. and also: Additionally, sites might wish to selectively enable or disable the use of temporary addresses for some prefixes. For example, a

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

2011-03-17 Thread Fernando Gont
On 16/03/2011 11:14 a.m., Yu Hua bing wrote: Our draft is not meant to propose not to use privacy addresses -- as noted a few times, already, the proposed mechanism could be used to turn privacy addresses on for some systems that have decided not to enable them by default (e.g., FreeBSD).

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

2011-03-16 Thread Christian Huitema
Then what's all this controversy with draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions? :-) -- That aside, there have been quite a few publications asessing the real privacy provided with the so-called privacy-extensions Using randomized host identifiers is way more private than sticking

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

2011-03-16 Thread sthaug
Why would you find it acceptable to have the ISP assign you the complete address e.g. with DHCP, then? In the context of a user requiring privacy protection, it isn't acceptable. As far as I know, what the ISP will assign is a prefix; the individual host addresses are locally assigned by

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

2011-03-16 Thread Fernando Gont
On 16/03/2011 03:30 a.m., Christian Huitema wrote: Then what's all this controversy with draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions? :-) -- That aside, there have been quite a few publications asessing the real privacy provided with the so-called privacy-extensions Using randomized

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

2011-03-16 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Fernando Gont wrote: On 16/03/2011 03:30 a.m., Christian Huitema wrote: Then what's all this controversy with draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions? :-) -- That aside, there have been quite a few publications asessing the real privacy provided with the so-called

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

2011-03-16 Thread Yu Hua bing
Our draft is not meant to propose not to use privacy addresses -- as noted a few times, already, the proposed mechanism could be used to turn privacy addresses on for some systems that have decided not to enable them by default (e.g., FreeBSD). Windows provides the command line to turn on or

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

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Haley
On 03/12/2011 06:29 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: 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.

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

2011-03-16 Thread Rémi Després
Le 16 mars 2011 à 07:30, Christian Huitema a écrit : ... In fact, rather than your draft proposing to not use privacy addresses, we should pursue the deprecation of using EUI-64 in addresses. -1 The worst part of your draft is that , if we published it, it would give the impression that

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/03/2011 05:49 p.m., Mark Smith wrote: I agree. I sort of accept that an ISP can know my addresses in use, in part because they gave them to me. However, for an ISP to not let me choose if I want to use privacy addresses on the Internet would be completely unacceptable. Why would you

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

2011-03-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fernando, On 2011-03-16 00:55, Fernando Gont wrote: On 09/03/2011 05:49 p.m., Mark Smith wrote: I agree. I sort of accept that an ISP can know my addresses in use, in part because they gave them to me. However, for an ISP to not let me choose if I want to use privacy addresses on the Internet

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fernando Gont
. Why would you find it acceptable to have the ISP assign you the complete address e.g. with DHCP, then? In the context of a user requiring privacy protection, it isn't acceptable. Then what's all this controversy with draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions? :-) -- That aside, there have

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
Notification for draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01 Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:57:54 -0800 (PST) From: IETF I-D Submission Tool idsubmiss...@ietf.org To: ferna...@gont.com.ar CC: r...@spawar.navy.mil A new version of I-D, draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-01.txt has been successfully

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
this in the next rev of the document. REQUEST for Fernando G/Ron B: Separately, keeping the quoted comments above in mind, the I-D draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions needs clarification edits to avoid using the phrase hardware-derived anywhere. Will do. REASON

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

2011-03-12 Thread Fernando Gont
subscribers would be a political blunder. The requirements in draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions are SHOULDs, for this very reason. How about including some text that explicitly states that a host can always override the desired policy (with a system toggle) if it desires to do so

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

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

2011-03-11 Thread Thomas Narten
Mark Smith i...@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org writes: I also think there is a fundamentally incorrect assumption is being made - that IPv6 addresses and humans are tightly coupled. Actually, if you look at trends, they are increasingly tightly coupled. Internet access by humans

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

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Townsley
the thread uncovered) RFC4941 by itself does the trick. But draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions (the subject of this thread) says you can't use RFC4941. I'm saying the reasons people are tempted to disable RFC4941 are misplaced. Really, they want the same tracking of which-host

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

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Townsley
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 a new MAC address each time I connect. Consider also the

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

2011-03-10 Thread Ran Atkinson
On 10 Mar 2011, at 02:34 , Dan Wing wrote: Nobody wants it removed in corporate deployments, either. That statement is far too strong; it simply is not true. Consider for a moment an IPv6-enabled telephone, on the desk of a Very Important Person at a company, ... (Laugh. I don't believe

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

2011-03-10 Thread Cameron Byrne
: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt On 2011-03-10 00:17, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing- privacy-extensions-00.txt I recommend that folks read the above draft. I

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

2011-03-10 Thread james woodyatt
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Ran Atkinson wrote: It seems pretty clear that Fred's NPTv6 is going to be deployed in at least some locations, albeit for entirely different reasons. I'm not sure if that meets your definition of NAPT66 or not. It does not. NPTv6 only translates the network

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

2011-03-10 Thread Paul Chilton
uncovered) Paul Chilton Low Power RF Solutions (formerly Jennic) NXP Semiconductors -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of james woodyatt Sent: 10 March 2011 16:02 To: Ran Atkinson Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-gont-6man-managing

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

2011-03-10 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ran Atkinson Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:10 AM To: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt On 10 Mar 2011, at 02:34 , Dan Wing wrote: Nobody

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

2011-03-10 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Chilton Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:18 AM To: james woodyatt Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: RE: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt Doesn't a combination of RFC4941

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

2011-03-10 Thread Christian Huitema
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 a new MAC address each time I connect. Consider also the effect of unique identifiers on tracking. The MAC address follows

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

2011-03-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/09/2011 06:57, 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. Just because privacy

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

2011-03-09 Thread Ran Atkinson
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt 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. Cheers

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt 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

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

2011-03-09 Thread huabing yu
2011/3/9 Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt I recommend that folks read the above draft. I haven't seen the I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, 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. I think it should indicate that ONLY hw-derived address should be created, which by defintion

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

2011-03-09 Thread RJ Atkinson
that would not embed a hardware address in the IID. REQUEST for Fernando G/Ron B: Separately, keeping the quoted comments above in mind, the I-D draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions needs clarification edits to avoid using the phrase hardware-derived anywhere. REASON

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

2011-03-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-10 00:17, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt I recommend that folks read the above draft. I haven't seen the I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG

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

2011-03-09 Thread james woodyatt
On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt 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

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

2011-03-09 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 09 Mar 2011, at 13:49 , Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-03-10 00:17, Mikael Abrahamsson 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

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

2011-03-09 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would observe that we have multiple documents which note the importance of traceability for problem resolution. Treating privacy as an all-or-nothing thing is probably a misleading perspective. It is extremely likely that privacy addresses, and their bindings to homes or office desktops,

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:32:45 -0500 Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com wrote: I would observe that we have multiple documents which note the importance of traceability for problem resolution. Treating privacy as an all-or-nothing thing is probably a misleading perspective. It is extremely

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Ran, On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:51:59 -0500 RJ Atkinson rja.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 09 Mar 2011, at 09:57 , Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Privacy Extensions is not the only mechanisms that might create an address to be used, thus I think the disable privacy flag is meaningless. If you

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:49:29 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-03-10 00:17, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt I recommend

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

2011-03-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-10 09:49, Mark Smith wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:49:29 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-03-10 00:17, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ran Atkinson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy

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

2011-03-09 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:49 AM To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: ipv6@ietf.org; Ran Atkinson Subject: Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt On 2011-03