Re: Comments on draft-nordmark-multi6-threats-01

El 10/06/2004, a las 20:30, Erik Nordmark escribió:

>> i guess that also in this point, we should follow the general criteria
>> of not making things worse than currently are.
>> SO the level of privacy provided in current single homed IPv6 should 
>> be
>> provided in multihoming, i guess.
>>
>> (a possibility could be to include the current level of privacy 
>> support
>> in IPv6, just as the other current state of the art are presented.)
>
> Good point.
> I guess we can start with IPv4 where in some cases (dialup being the
> prime example) the IPv4 addresses change over time.
> In IPv6 the temporary addresses RFC provide a way to make it
> harder to correlate packets from the same machine over time.
>
> So I think the "do no harm" criteria means that the introduction
> of multihoming support should still provide the same ability as we
> have in IPv6 with temporary addresses.
>

agree
i guess it should also be noted that in order to be reachable, a node 
has to have a stable IP address (stable means compatible with DNS times 
for instance) (which is obvious anyway, that in order to be reachable a 
node cannot be anonymous :-)

regards, marcelo

>    Erik
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