Re: ICR "Unique Identifiers"
Roland Perry <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:19:13 +0000
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In article <C5A5B053-5205-4B8B-A581-769A4794B196-BFib/[email protected]>, Ian Batten <igb-BFib/[email protected]> writes >What? What? What is this on about? I’m guessing it means you >need to store whatever the token was that was used to issue an IP >number (IMEI, modem MAC, etc), but it’s surely not going to be able >to do anyhing about downstream NAT It's not a secret that they are trying to "do something" about Carrier-Grade NAT, which has always been a characteristic of most GSM data access, but is now infiltrating fixed broadband, largely because of the exhaustion of IPv4 addressing. It's the 2015 equivalent of wanting to know which subscriber had which dynamic IP address (at a specific time/date) issued from a dial-up modem in the 90's. -- Roland Perry