Re: Notes about identifier - locator separator

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Friday, Nov 8, 2002, at 12:37 America/Montreal, Christian Huitema 
wrote:
> There are a couple of issues with any proposal of that nature, and the
> main one is privacy. Having a unique identifier exposed to the network
> means that anybody on the path can track the presence and location of
> users, with consequence ranging from annoying (e.g. variations of
> telemarketing) to downright dramatic (e.g. missile auto-aining to a 
> cell
> phone).
They can be tracked *anyway* using traffic analysis.  And the silly
Privacy stateless autoconfig thing currently specified does NOT
prevent user tracking either -- that spec does solve the marketing
problem about privacy, but only for people who don't understand how
real commercial user tracking happens at many web sites (particularly
sites that don't use cookies and rely on existing commercial traffic
analysis tools) today.

Ran