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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Fri Jul 01 15:22:38 2005 
* [email protected] (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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