Re: [homenet] IPv6 & firewall config in a home net

[Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Ray Hunter (v6ops) wrote:

> IMHO Expected behavior. Many European data protection people consider an 
> IP(v6) address to be privacy-sensitive personal data. That will likely 
> mean regular renumbering of IA PD by ISP's as the norm rather than the 
> exception.

This is the first time I've seen anyone make this claim (I guess related 
to GDPR). I've gone through GDPR review and talked to others who have done 
the same, and I from a GDPR point of view there is no reason to renumber 
on a regular basis. From what I can tell, renumbering at some frequency 
makes no difference from a GDPR point of view. The addresses are privacy 
sensitive regardless if you change them frequently or not.

My experience is that the frequent renumbering is a local market practice 
that people in that market got used to. As a swedish user, I hadn't heard 
of this practice until I started talking about these things with people 
that ran/experienced ISPs in other nations. The defaults are also 
different.

Some markets have frequent renumbering (some even reset the PPPoE session 
once per day, which is a flash renumbering eevent), some never renumber 
unless there is a big network change (I've had the same IPv6 prefix now 
for a year).

The conclusion is that we need to create solutions that handle both these 
cases.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [e-mail]