Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

[Eric Burger <[e-mail]>]

Tastes like the ‘evil’ bit, in reverse.

On Nov 25, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  My smartphone can turn into a Wifi access point so I can easily use
> its Internet connection from my netbook. Problem is that nearby devices
> I do not control might report my whereabouts to third parties that map
> network equipment to geographic locations. A naming convention for net-
> works has been proposed to address this, append "_nomap" to the network
> name and "good actors" will ignore it. I thought it would be a good idea
> to document this convention in a better place than a single vendor's
> blog post, so two years ago today I published
> 
>  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-nomap-00
> 
> I think this is a "better than nothing" mechanism and I am not the most
> qualified person to document it, and there was pretty much no interest
> in the document when I announced it. Still, especially considering more
> and more organisations are collecting such data, I think this needs good
> documentation. I am looking for volunteers, suggestions, whatever helps
> getting that done without a lot of effort on my part...
> 
> Thanks!
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