Internet Protocol Version 6 Workshop

[Brian Haberman]

Jeff,
     Make up your mind.  Is it two members of the mailing list OR
a majority of the working group?  BIG difference.

Brian Haberman


Jeff Williams wrote:
> 
> Thomas and all,
> 
>   I am sorry I must respectfully disagree with you here Thomas.
> I specifically had a running debate with two members of the Ipng
> list members discussing this issue.
> 
> Thomas Narten wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> >
> > >   A little over a year ago, there was some heated debate (I was
> > > involved) regarding the Privacy concerns with IPv6.  Most of this
> > > is do to two problems.  One being the "Autoconfig" for implementation
> > > specification for IPv6, the other is the "Always On" feature of IPv6.
> > > The implementation (Autoconfig as default) was and remains that
> > > biggest problem with respect to Privacy issues.  (Autoconfig) should
> > > not be default was my argument for implementation.  I also suggested
> > > several changes to the Spec for Autoconfig for consideration.  But
> > > the majority of the group felt that being able to track folks easily
> > > was more important.  I found this astounding.
> >
> > This characterization of past IPng WG discussions is most definitely
> > false and at best a gross distortion of past discussions. At no time
> > that I can recall has the WG ever argued that "tracking folks" is a
> > desirable goal.  It is also completely inconsistent with the WG's
> > recent decision to recommend that the IESG publish
> > draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-privacy-03.txt as a Proposed Standard.
> >
> > Thomas
> 
> Regards,
> 
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