dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

Wed Jul 27 02:43:39 UTC 2011

On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> 
> On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Matt Addison wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>>> There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you,
>>> which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last
>>> Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is an
>>> entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
>> 
>> With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1]
>> this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through
>> the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the
>> household as well based on prefix information?
> 
> 
> That depends on what happens when ISPs do start giving residences /48s and ARIN starts asking for the SWIP details on blocks that large.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman

I believe that the existing residential customer privacy policy covers this.

Owen