[102078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Thu Jan 24 23:22:39 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:59:07 -0800
From: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47989C40.4050305@fas.harvard.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 24, 2008 6:10 AM, Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> We have a similar system based around Cisco's CNR which is a popular
> DHCP/DNS system used by large ISP's and other large organization and it
> is the IP+Timestamp coupled with the owner to MAC relationship which
> allows unique identification of a user
[snip]
Let's not confuse identifying a person with identifying a particular
network interface. The disparity between the two may vary widely with
NAT, wifi, shared machines, etc.
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