Re: [Ideas] Fwd: Re: WG Review: IDentity Enabled Networks (ideas)

[Padma Pillay-Esnault <[e-mail]>]

> I think there is also an aspect of "tracked by whom" which needs to be
> considered.
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> <Padma> Perhaps it would be worthwhile to clarify this in the charter.


> Today a user is likely to have different concerns about being tracked by
> e.g., Facebook or Google when the are logged in the their account then
> being track by a 3rd party such as an ISP or nation state. In the same way
> an (industrial) IoT device might need to be tracked by the owner of that
> device, without it being trackable by a 3rd party.
>
> There might be an implicit assumption in the IDEAS work that there will be
> a globally id->loc database readable by all, the same way we think of the
> global DNS. But I think that this would be overly limiting and push us into
> a black or white privacy vs. functionality discussion.
>
>

> Elsewhere I see IETF protocols like EVPN which is used to advertise
> (factory assigned and permanent) Ethernet MAC addresses in BGP, which is
> global. However, the way that protocol is deployed the distribution of the
> EVPN routes are constrained (by BGP configuration) to the domain which
> should have access to such information. The notion of having a
> distribution/lookup/mapping technology which is capable of being global,
> i.e., not tied to technology, but where the information sharing is
> restricted by policy makes a lot of sense to me. This policy could be some
> notion of closed user groups.
>
> <Padma>
Yes the point was to restrict information to eavesdroppers or share with
need to know.


> Thus I think we should collectivity look at a combination of approaches
> which includes the MP-TCP-like locator agility with its privacy protection
> and also cryptographically strong identifiers in IDEAS with privacy
> protection designed in from day one.
>
> <Padma> Agree


> My 2 cents,
>    Erik
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