[nmrg] trace meta data and anonymization / pseudonymization

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 31 July 2008 13:35 UTC

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:35:04 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Hi,

during the review of <draft-irtf-nmrg-snmp-measure-05>, two items
popped up several times:

a) trace meta-data

   The question is what meta-data should be recoded, what should it
   include, are there specific formats to record meta-data etc.

b) trace anonymization/pseudonymization

   Which anonymization/pseudonymization transforms are out there and
   how strong are they or which pitfalls should be known/avoided while
   doing trace anonymization.

I believe both subjects are important and especially b) is also
relevant for work in the IETF (the IPFIX WG is starting to work on
anonymization mediators for IPFIX).

I am just bringing this up here so that people are aware of this
outcome of the review process and if there are people who are actually
interested to work on some of this, please speak up and we can see
whether there is sufficient interest and critical mass.

/js

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