On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 November 2016 at 16:12, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> TLDR; the privacy offered by this extension is the same as the privacy
>> of DTLS over UDP.
>
> I disagree.  All the privacy considerations of the QUIC connection ID
> apply here.  It would probably pay to follow that discussion.
>
> If the intent of this is simply to deal with the NAT rebinding issue,
> then I think that this is worth doing, but to say that this does not
> have privacy issues would be overstating the case.

I thought we were going to kill NAT with IPv6, but apparently you
can't remove bad ideas from the Internet. Another place where
connection IDs are needed is with mobile clients: anyone who has used
ssh while switching networks knows the pain the lack of a connection
ID distinct from the 4-tuple brings.

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