Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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 () 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