Re: [Gen-art] Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb-47

[Nabil Benamar <[e-mail]>]

Dear Roni,

Thank you for your review. Indeed, you raised a crucial privacy issue that
we need to tackle in this draft.

If we look at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8065 which recommends the
generic https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8064, we can say that we  comply by
inheritance from Ethernet since our current draft is targeted at using the
RFC 2464 (plus IPv6 suite over Ethernet) with minimal changes, as we
mention in the abstract (...for using IPv6 to communicate among nodes in
range of

   one another over a single IEEE 802.11-OCB link *with minimal change to *

*   existing stacks*).


However, there are some specificities related to vehicles. Since they roam
a lot, the use of a same Link Local Address over time can leak the presence
of the same vehicle in multiple places. Location tracking, if the same
interface identifier is used with different prefixes as a device/vehicle
moves between different networks.


Hence, a vehicle should get hints about a change of environment (e.g. ,
engine running, GPS, whatever) and renew the IID in LLAs.



I can make these proposed changes in a separate sub-section to emphasize
the concern and fix the privacy issue.


Thank you!

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:05 AM Roni Even via Datatracker <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Reviewer: Roni Even
> Review result: Ready with Issues
>
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> Document: draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb-47
> Reviewer: Roni Even
> Review Date: 2019-07-03
> IETF LC End Date: None
> IESG Telechat date: 2019-07-11
>
> Summary:
> The document is ready to be published as a standard track RFC with an issue
>
> Major issues:
>
> Minor issues:
>
> this is about my previous comment.
> The text in section 5.1 "A vehicle embarking  an IP-OBU whose egress
> interface
> is 802.11-OCB may expose itself to  eavesdropping and subsequent
> correlation of
> data; this may reveal data considered private by the vehicle owner; there
> is a
> risk of being tracked.  In outdoors public environments, where vehicles
> typically circulate, the privacy risks are more important than in indoors
> settings." and "there is a strong necessity to use protection tools such
> as
> dynamically changing MAC addresses"
>  so even though there are privacy concerns there is no normative text
> saying
>  that some method is needed. "strong necessity" is not normative .
>
> A new sentence was added to section 5.1 "An example of change policy is to
> change the MAC address of the OCB interface each time the system boots up"
>
> I got more confused by section 5.2 text "The policy dictating when the MAC
> address is changed on the 802.11-OCB interface is to-be-determined."
>
> So what I got from section 5.1 and 5.2 is that protection tools to address
> privacy concern are needed but without any normative text.  Dynamic
> changing
> of MAC address is an option, no other option is mentioned.  Example for
> when to
> change MAC address is on system boot and the policy when to change MAC
> address
> is to be determined.
>
> To summarize what the document currently says is that privacy risks are
> more
> important for outdoor public environment and it is left for
> implementations to
> decide if and how to address it.
>
> Nits/editorial comments:
>
>
>

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Best Regards

Nabil Benamar
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
School of Technology
Moulay Ismail University
Meknes. Morocco