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Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

2013-11-26 12:00:49
Tastes like the ‘evil’ bit, in reverse.

On Nov 25, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net> 
wrote:

Hi,

 My smartphone can turn into a Wifi access point so I can easily use
its Internet connection from my netbook. Problem is that nearby devices
I do not control might report my whereabouts to third parties that map
network equipment to geographic locations. A naming convention for net-
works has been proposed to address this, append "_nomap" to the network
name and "good actors" will ignore it. I thought it would be a good idea
to document this convention in a better place than a single vendor's
blog post, so two years ago today I published

 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-nomap-00

I think this is a "better than nothing" mechanism and I am not the most
qualified person to document it, and there was pretty much no interest
in the document when I announced it. Still, especially considering more
and more organisations are collecting such data, I think this needs good
documentation. I am looking for volunteers, suggestions, whatever helps
getting that done without a lot of effort on my part...

Thanks!
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