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Re: wireless geolocation

2017-06-07 10:19:01
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Nico Williams 
<nico(_at_)cryptonector(_dot_)com>
wrote:

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:23:13AM +0200, Christian Huitema wrote:
On 6/6/2017 5:36 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
the ietf is far from the only event with this problem.  but it is kind
of in our purview to automate it.  the noc is not the place to work on
protocols and databases; the noc is just the customer/user.  a bof or
some existing wg might be.

Another argument for MAC Address randomization...

+1

Though that's likely to lead geoloc providers to use other methods over
which we'd have even less control.  But still, MAC address randomization
is a good thing all around.


How would Client MAC address randomization help this situation? I not aware
of APs implementing MAC address (BSSID) randomization.



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