[140683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: user-relative names - was:[Re: Yahoo and IPv6]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 17 22:30:20 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110517180915.B96C4229@resin16.mta.everyone.net>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:30:13 -0700
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 17, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> --- joelja@bogus.com wrote:
> From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
> On May 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Scott Brim wrote:
>> On May 17, 2011 6:26 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:19 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
>>>=20
>>>> What about privacy concerns
>>>=20
>>> "Privacy is dead. Get used to it." -- Scott McNeely
>>=20
>> Forget that attitude, Valdis. Just because privacy is blown at one =
level
>> doesn't mean you give it away at every other one. We establish the =
framework
>> for recovering privacy and make progress step by step, wherever we =
can.
>> Someday we'll get it all back under control.
>=20
> if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to =
discovered. scoping the nameservers such that they only express certain =
certain resource records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly =
straight forward.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>=20
>=20
> The article was not about DNS. It was about "Persistent Personal =
Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices" where "Users normally =
create personal names by introducing devices locally, on a common WiFi =
network for example. Once created, these names remain persistently bound =
to their targets as devices move. Personal names are intended to =
supplement and not replace global DNS names." =20
you mean like mac addresses? those have a tendency to follow you around =
in ipv6...
> I see a lot of folks on lists designing future networks where an =
identifier follows you everywhere and we as operators will have to deal =
with a public hostile to the idea of being followed. It's happening =
now. Just read all the articles on privacy lost. It's not going to go =
away. People like their privacy whether they're doing bad things or =
not.
>=20
> scott
>=20
