Re: RFC 7721 on Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms

RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> Wed, 16 March 2016 19:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 7721 on Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:21:44PM -0800, RFC Editor wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 7721
> 
>         Title:      Security and Privacy Considerations for 
>                     IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms 
>         Author:     A. Cooper, F. Gont, D. Thaler
>         Status:     Informational
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       March 2016
>         Mailbox:    alcoop@cisco.com, 
>                     fgont@si6networks.com, 
>                     dthaler@microsoft.com
>         Pages:      18
>         Characters: 43381
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy-08.txt
> 
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7721
> 
>         DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7721
> 
> This document discusses privacy and security considerations for
> several IPv6 address generation mechanisms, both standardized and
> non-standardized.  It evaluates how different mechanisms mitigate
> different threats and the trade-offs that implementors, developers,
> and users face in choosing different addresses or address generation
> mechanisms.
> 
> This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
> 
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