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Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-07 09:33:02
    > From: mrex(_at_)sap(_dot_)com (Martin Rex)

    > To me, IPv6 PA prefixes look like a pretty useless feature (from the
    > customer perspective). 

Far be it from me to defend IPv6, but... I don't see the case here.

Our house is pretty typical of the _average_ consumer - we have a provider
suppplied PA address (IPv4, but the principles are the same), which they seem
to change on a fairly regular basis as they renumber/reorganize their
network. However, as we don't run any servers/services, we don't care. Thanks
to the magic of DHCP, etc, everything 'just works'. So for the _average_
customer (who are 99.9...% of their customers), PA is just fine.

    > you want some level of privacy protection and therefore a fully dynamic
    > temporary DHCP-assigned IPv6 address

This turns out to be a chimera. Such addresses don't really provide any real
privacy - it turns out to be easy to track people through their access
patterns, etc.

        Noel

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