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Re: Address privacy

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 30 January 2020 22:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: Address privacy
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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On 30/1/20 18:32, David Farmer wrote:
>
> 
> By the way, I think calling them privacy addresses sets the bar way too 
> high, maybe the title should be changed as well, "Privacy Extensions for 
> Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6" is probably setting the bar 
> too high.   Maybe "Temporary Address Extensions for ..."

I agree. In fact, the title has always seemed confusing or misleading to 
me.

Thanks!

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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