[81879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Fri Jul 1 15:22:01 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:21:31 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* jmaimon@ttec.com (Joe Maimon) [Fri 01 Jul 2005, 17:38 CEST]:
>>On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
>>>- Privacy enhanced addresses - not tracking usage based on addresses
>As if they need to keep 128 bits for the tracking to be accurate.
>
>If everybody gets /64 then I am certain trackers will be quite happy to
>limit their tracking to that, it will serve them the same purpose.
With solely EUI-64 assigned addresses tracking stations across networks
would be easy. Hence the privacy extensions.
-- Niels.
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The idle mind is the devil's playground
