Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 8/19/10 5:30 AM, Joakim Aronius wrote:
> * Hannes Frederic Sowa (hannes () 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