Also good for customer privacy. LE can still subpoena ISP logs, but e-commerce
sites can't track users quite as easily.
-Bill
On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:55, "William Allen Simpson"
<william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/3/11 4:13 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> I agree that autoconf is desirable. Now, please explain to me why it is
>> desirable for the address to change at random intervals from the customer
>> perspective? (i.e. why would one want dynamic rather than static auto
>> configuration?)
>>
> Because IPv6 was originally designed with the goal of completely
> transparent renumbering. Indeed, after many WG meetings over many
> years debating renumbering and all the problems that entailed for
> IPv4, some of my drafts proposed that IANA would renumber IPv6 for
> every ISP and IX at regular intervals!
>
> Thus, enforcing that all the dynamic configuration protocols
> actually work. :-) And nobody starts issuing licenses based on IP
> addresses anymore. :-(
>
