[143057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jul 26 22:46:38 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <2748AD56-9051-471B-B8A8-A3616C64F394@matthew.at>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:43:39 -0700
To: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>=20
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Matt Addison wrote:
>=20
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>> There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies =
give you,
>>> which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM =
last
>>> Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is =
"This is an
>>> entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
>>=20
>> With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1]
>> this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified =
through
>> the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the
>> household as well based on prefix information?
>=20
>=20
> That depends on what happens when ISPs do start giving residences /48s =
and ARIN starts asking for the SWIP details on blocks that large.
>=20
> Matthew Kaufman
I believe that the existing residential customer privacy policy covers =
this.
Owen
