Folks, I has been suggested to me that we might want to change the title of this document, and the chairs have suggested that I comment on this one on-list.
The arguemtn, as far as I can tell, is that the current title might be confusing (mostly because of the confusion there is with different terminology on the subject). The current title is: * "A method for Generating Stable Privacy-Enhanced Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)" It conveys this key information: that the addresses are stable, and that they are privacy-friendly And the titles that have so far been suggested are: 1) ""Stable Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)" Me, I think this one is confusing -- for instance, IEEE-derived addresses are stable, too. 2) "Stable Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) not derived from EUI-64 identifiers" This one doesn't convey the information that these addresses are privacy-friendly. Besides, why whould we assume that every link layer can generate addresses based on EUI-64 ientifiers? (some link layers don't have those) 3) "Underived from EUI-64 Stable Addresses..." Same as "3)". 4) "Amethod for generating stable random addresses" This one is also confusing, since the current scheme used by Windows provide addresses that are random, and stable across networks. Given the above options I'd stick with the current title. Besides, the community has become used to refer to this method as "stable-privacy-addresses".. so changing the title at this point would, IMHO, only contribute to confusion. Thoughts? Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
