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Re: [dhcwg] Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-scanning-implications

Bud Millwood <budm@weird-solutions.com> Tue, 27 March 2007 14:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-scanning-implications
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On Monday 19 March 2007 09:43, Tony Hain wrote:
> One of the things that this draft might want to do is note that 'sparse
> allocation of the space' is the function that mitigates scanning. There is
> a focus on 'random' which is the mechanism to distribute sparsely in the
> space, but I have found that many people get hung up on 'random' and miss
> the point that sparseness is the value.

Why not simply suggest "unpredictable" address allocation? Certainly "random" 
is different from "hashed", although hashed can also be difficult to predict.

- Bud

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