[128370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question of privacy with reassigned resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Aug 4 15:42:28 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=DegdxXwTjBF6348yqx_YFEqFJcj=WMRjKUb6h@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:42:02 +0200
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:35 17AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> =
wrote:
>> If it is a business, then accurate address does not seem to me an
>> issue, if it is a private address, I think a bit of fuzziness is =
helpful
>=20
> An apartment complex/condo/etc is a business which contains private =
addresses.
>=20
> Do you sell to the residents directly or do you sell to the apartment
> complex which then resells to individual residents?
>=20
> If the former then you're basically off the hook for anybody who
> doesn't get a /29 or larger.
>=20
> For the latter, you're providing significant amounts of a public
> resource (IP addresses) to a business whose contact information you're
> contractually and ethically obligated to reveal. If a particular
> complex is worried about publishing their location, they can always
> rent a P.O. box. If you're the only one doing the worrying, don't.
I strongly disagree -- you're revealing the precise address of any =
tenant in those buildings. Don't do that...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
