OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Fri Jul 1 19:21:31 UTC 2005


* jmaimon at ttec.com (Joe Maimon) [Fri 01 Jul 2005, 17:38 CEST]:
>>On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
>>>- Privacy enhanced addresses - not tracking usage based on addresses
>As if they need to keep 128 bits for the tracking to be accurate.
>
>If everybody gets /64 then I am certain trackers will be quite happy to 
>limit their tracking to that, it will serve them the same purpose.

With solely EUI-64 assigned addresses tracking stations across networks 
would be easy.  Hence the privacy extensions.


	-- Niels.

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