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Re: [Ila] [5gangip] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-herbert-ipv6-prefix-address-privacy-00.txt

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Wed, 21 February 2018 16:03 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@quantonium.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ila] [5gangip] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-herbert-ipv6-prefix-address-privacy-00.txt
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tom Herbert wrote:

> Host are assigned addresses from the space. The goal is that all 
> addresses appear to be randomly assigned in that space. Conceptually, a 
> host could request assignment for inidivual millions or billions of 
> addresses, but that won't scale. The alternative suggested is to assign 
> addresses in blocks using hidden aggregation as described in section 
> 6.2.2.2. Blocks would contain multiple addresses (could be thousands, 
> millions, etc.).

This means the host still needs to cycle these blocks over time to 
maintain privacy. Does the scaling still support a host having hundreds of 
these blocks at any given time?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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