[146738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Nov 21 16:01:59 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111121204745.GA29847@srv03.cluenet.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:59:21 -0800
To: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:27:55PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Unfortunately, there are some ISPs that believe this is the right =
thing to do.
>> Some go so far as to claim that scrambling customer prefixes is a =
mechanism
>> to help insure customer privacy.
>=20
> s/ISPs/governments, privacy people and influential media outlets/
>=20
> There is significant political pressure (at least over here) to
> continue that IPv4 habit for IPv6 as well.
>=20
Yes, IMHO, Germany has some of the most misguided privacy laws and =
habits
in human history. In the rest of the world, it is primarily ISPs that =
are repeating
this mantra, but, hopefully reality will eventually set in and correct =
the situation
even in Germany.
Owen
