end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

Thu Aug 19 16:48:43 UTC 2010

On 8/19/10 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius wrote:
> * Hannes Frederic Sowa (hannes at mailcolloid.de) wrote:
>>
>> But most people just don't care. My proposal is to have some kind of
>> sane defaults for them e.g. changing their prefix every week or in the
>> case of a reconnect. This would mitigate some of the many privacy
>> concerns in the internet a little bit. Of course all the already known
>> problems would still exist. And still people have to care about the
>> technology to reach a higher level of anonymity.
> 
> Ok. Lets assume that the ISP hands out new prefixes to the clients CPE each week. The CPE then advertises these prefixes on the clients home network. For clients accessing the internet this works fine (except perhaps a glitch during the switchover). 
> 
> But what about the internal communication in the customer premises? How do they connect to their NAS, media players, printers, TVs etc? Of course there is UPnP, DLNA and different other kinds of magic but I imagine that most home users actually configure IP addresses at some point. 

manual configuration of ip address name mappings seems like a rather low
priority for the average home user...

I don't expect that will be a big activity in the future either, more
devices means less manual intervention not more.

> Constantly changing prefixes will ad another layer of complexity, things will break, and customers will be upset. (and quite frankly I don't think that you would gain that much privacy anyway) 
> 
> just my $.02
> 
> /Joakim
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