Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-hilliard-v6ops-host-addr-update-00.txt - Privacy Properties

[Tim Chown <[e-mail]>]

> On 20 Jul 2017, at 16:53, Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Tim Chown wrote:
>> For home networks, hotspots, campus WiFi, etc, I’d expect SLAAC to be available.
> 
> home networks probably yes.
> 
> <ymmv>
> hotspots and campus wifi are a different kettle of fish though, due to
> policy and/or legal requirements to put steps in place for end-to-end
> traceability (regardless of how easy it might be to work around these
> things).

For campus network wifi, you get accountability through eduroam.

Many hotspots have zero authentication.

> Note that in cases like hotspots and campus wifi, you would be well
> advised not to have any expectations of privacy to start with, so in the
> general case, it would be questionable as to whether these networks
> would be bcp204 compliant to start with.  This isn't a blanket statement
> or a position of intent, btw - just an observation that if you use
> someone else's network resources, you are subject to their policies.
> </ymmv>

Yeah things like GDPR would come into play. But let’s not go down this rathole; the point is that different scenarios will have different expectations and requirements.  And I’d argue administratively managed enterprises are the the most likely to put a requirement on DHCPv6, or to run SLAAC with 4941 disabled.

Tim