Re: Identification

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:10:59AM -0500, Bound, Jim wrote:
> 
> Also we want my CD player to be able to support a self healing link
> partition if I change the IPv6 scope of identifier, or merge two links
> to one link local domain as two examples.

Before long that piece of CD hifi is more likely to be a wireless MP3
player which could download new tracks from anywhere.   But if you are
constrained to the home I wouldn't want my appliances using well-known
MAC prefixes either else an inventory of household electronics is on
the wire as my TV/TiVo accesses programme info or my CD accesses the cddb
or my fridge auto-orders more beer.  Of course most households have these
items, but the MAC address might identify high-end products - so it's
not just a concern of privacy nut-cakes :)

(BTW, for my CD or MP3 player to query cddb to lookup track info the lack
of a stateless DNS discovery method means you need a DHCP client in your 
MP3 player...)

Tim