----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 09:41 Subject: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
Hi:
I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments, crtics or interviews welcomed.
-- snip As you know IPv6 is a suite of protocols for the network layer of the Internet which uses IPv4 gateways. It's purpose is to expand address space. At this time IPv6 comes prepackaged with all popular operating systems. This includes all flavours of unix , windows and Mac OS.
Windows? I don't think so, not yet anyways
IPv6 is designed to solve many of the problems of the current version of IPv4 with regard to address depletion. The goal is to use IPv6 to expand the capabilities of the Internet to enable a variety of valuable peer-to-peer and mobile applications. According to many industry pundits it is the future of networking.
However IPv6 has many privacy issues. IPv6 address space uses an ID (indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone.
Hmm - if you mean that there will now be enough addresses to assign each device its own IP6 Address - then yah. Other than that, how is it "derived" from the hardware.
Ipv6 empowers the business community by providing a means of identifying and tracking users. Under Ipv6 users can be tracked and income demographics determined through hardware identification.
Many members of the networking community have addressed concerns that the technology could result in potential abuse and <censored> warns users to think twice before they buy themselves a used Lap-Top computer and inherit all the prior surfing history of the previous user?
Hmm - again, I would be upset if I wasn't able to CHANGE the IP6 addy because this would be true.