end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-17 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hello! As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage in Germany, I realized I have not found any BCP for handling addressing in those scenarios. IPv6 will make it a lot easier for static address deployments but I wonder weather this is in the best sense for the customers. A

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: Did you reach any conclusion on this matter? Let the user choose. Here in Sweden we've for 10 years had ISPs offering static IPv4 address (either handed out via DHCP or just plain static with no dynamics what so ever) and some users prefer tha

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-17 Thread Marco Hogewoning
On 18 aug 2010, at 01:12, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > prefer static addressing. But in the world of facebook and co. I > wonder if it would be a better to let the user have the choice. A What does facebook have to do with it ? Ever heard of cookies ? MarcoH

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Marco Hogewoning wrote: > > On 18 aug 2010, at 01:12, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > >> prefer static addressing. But in the world of facebook and co. I >> wonder if it would be a better to let the user have the choice. A > > What does facebook have to do with it ?

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > For people who want to use DNS and run services, they'll most likely want a > static address/subnet that doesn't change in the first place (even though it > should be handed out via DHCPv6-PD for ease). If someone wants to be > anonymous

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Marco Hogewoning
On 18 aug 2010, at 09:35, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Marco Hogewoning wrote: >> >> On 18 aug 2010, at 01:12, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: >> >>> prefer static addressing. But in the world of facebook and co. I >>> wonder if it would be a better to let the use

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:19 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Hello! > > As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage > in Germany, I realized I have not found any BCP for handling > addressing in those scenarios. IPv6 will make it a lot easier for > static address de

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > Haven't really thought about it before. > > One thing to consider is that unless the preferred and valid lifetimes > of an IPv6 prefix are set to infinity, IPv6 prefixes are always dynamic > - they'll eventually expire unless they're refreshed.

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:18:00 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Haven't really thought about it before. > > > > One thing to consider is that unless the preferred and valid lifetimes > > of an IPv6 prefix are set to infinity, IPv6 prefixes

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Jack Bates
Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: the other one will be dynamically allocated. I have no clue how the user would switch between these subnets (without using some kind of command line tools). Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementation

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:47 +0930 Mark Smith wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:12:19 +0200 > Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > As the first IPv6 deployments for end-users are in the planning stage > > in Germany, I realized I have not found any BCP for handling > > addressing in

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > They help because you're concerned about privacy. You didn't qualify > that you're only concerned about privacy from geolocation services, so > I described a mechanism that would provide you as much privacy as > possible, while also being automa

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch > subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementations work great, as they are already > designed to utilize radius backends to quickly alter static/dynamic on a > session. For bridging s

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Joakim Aronius
* 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 l

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius 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 mitig

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Jack Bates
Joakim Aronius wrote: 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

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/19/10 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius 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

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Joakim Aronius
* Joel Jaeggli (joe...@bogus.com) wrote: > > manual configuration of ip address name mappings seems like a rather low > priority for the average home user... > > I don't expect that will be a big activity in the future either, more > devices means less manual intervention not more. > Ok, ok, so

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-19 Thread Leen Besselink
On 08/19/2010 07:58 PM, Joakim Aronius wrote: * Joel Jaeggli (joe...@bogus.com) wrote: manual configuration of ip address name mappings seems like a rather low priority for the average home user... I don't expect that will be a big activity in the future either, more devices means less manu

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:30:07 +0200 Joakim Aronius 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 w

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/18/10 4:20 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Smith wrote: >>> In IPv4-land I have the possibility to >>> reconnect and get a new unrelated ip-address every time. >>> >> >> They're issued by the same ISP, to they're related. > > Ups. Unrelated in the sens

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/19/10 10:58 AM, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Joel Jaeggli (joe...@bogus.com) wrote: >> >> manual configuration of ip address name mappings seems like a >> rather low priority for the average home user... >> >> I don't expect that will be a big activity in the future either, >> more devices mean

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:35:50 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > > Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch > > subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementations work great, as they are already > > designed to utilize radiu

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-21 Thread Owen DeLong
> > I can remember early network printers using bootp and the assuming that > they could use that one ip address forever. today the printer will dhcp > and advertise it's availability in the same broadcast domain and may > well reregister it's name in dynamic dns if possible. Funny... I remember

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-22 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 8/21/10 11:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> I can remember early network printers using bootp and the assuming that >> they could use that one ip address forever. today the printer will dhcp >> and advertise it's availability in the same broadcast domain and may >> well reregister it's name in dy

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

2010-08-24 Thread David W. Hankins
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:41:56PM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > prefixes to the unnumbered interface. If you use dslam level controls, > you'll most likely being using DHCPv6 TA addressing with PD on top of it, > which works well. Most of which can support quick static/dynamic > capabilities as it