[125763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Apr 23 00:35:33 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100422113039.GA8190@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:29:49 -0700
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:30 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, I could swear I've seen a draft where the PC picks
>> up random unused addresses in the lower 64 for each new outbound
>> connection for anonymity purposes. Even if there is no such draft, it
>> wouldn't exactly be hard to implement. It won't take NAT to anonymize
>> the PCs on a LAN with IPv6.
>
> the idea is covered by one or more patents held by cisco.
>
> --bill
>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin
It's default behavior in Windows 7 and is specified in an RFC.
Look for IPv6 Privacy Addressing.
Owen
