Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

[SM <[e-mail]>]

At 19:51 26-11-2013, Richard Barnes wrote:
>be able to.  The people who would deploy this sort of policy 
>mechanism cannot change the 802.11 protocols their WiFi chipsets 
>use, but they *can* change an SSID or parse an SSID.  If you wait 
>IEEE to make a standard, and vendors to build it, and ... well, I'll 
>see you in a few years.

The proposal has been implemented in the Securifi Almond WiFi 
Router.  It is also supported by Mozilla and Google.

draft-hoehrmann-nomap-00 does not contain any occurrence of the word 
"privacy".  According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, "Google 
has complied with the requirement to inform those involved, both 
online and off-line, about the processing of WiFi data and about the 
possibility of registering their refusal by means of an opt-out 
possibility".  I suggest having some text to discuss the privacy 
angle.  The draft could discuss the pros and cons of the identifier convention.

>Yes, it's a hack, but the Internet lives on hacks.  And people are 
>using it, so what's the harm in documenting it?  To make an analogy, 
>how many RFCs for v4/v6 transition schemes do we have that slam an 
>IPv4 address into an IPv6 address?

A lot. :-)

Regards,
-sm