Subject: Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-colitti-v6ops-host-addr-availability

From: Dave Thaler <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 22:53:34 +0000

I read this draft and have a comment on its discussion (or lack thereof) of privacy issues...

Section 8.1 mentions tracking for "protection from liability for copyright infringement or other illegal activity",

but doesn't say anything about what they actually need to track that DHCP provides.  For example, is this

referring to MAC address or host name?   If so, just add a reference to draft-ietf-dhc-anonymity-profile

for why that will be problematic anyway.

If they want to force users to identify themselves at a higher level, then DHCP doesn't provide that

and instead they'd be using a captive portal (and see the capport bof...)

Also section 11 (security considerations) is currently content free.

I'd suggest referencing the above discussions or even moving the discussion of identity

determination/tracking to sec 11.    Other possibly relevant references in that discussion include

draft-huitema-6man-random-addresses and draft-huitema-privsec-harmfulname.

Dave