Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 11/26/2013 08:13 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> I think that's a little facile.

Ok, how's this then....

This reminds me of DNT which was one we passed on when it
was brought to the IETF and I think we should be glad we
did that.

Now I *think* there are fewer adversaries in this case and
those are maybe less adversarial but this has the same
property that there's no technical enforcement mechanism
at all, which makes me wonder.

That said, this might be an ok thing, I guess.

I'd prefer if IEEE provided me a way to have my (E)SSIDs
etc. look random every time to non-authenticated devices
or something. Or to have a way to have us all easily be
able to share a few SSIDs and MAC addresses. There are
probably loads of reasons why that'd not work, but if it
did at least then we'd not just be depending solely on
the kindness of strangers.

S.

> 
> The evil bit is ridiculous because evil people have no incentive to set it
> (thus nobody would ever look for it to be set).  With the _nomap suffix,
> the people who would need to set it have an incentive to do so, and at
> least in certain cases, the entities that might consume it have incentives
> to obey it as well.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Eric Burger <[e-mail]>wrote:
> 
>> 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!
>>> --
>>> Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[e-mail] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
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>>
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