I must admit that I hadn't heard Ron's name before but Google tells me
that he definitely has some experiences with IPv6 on large scale
enterprise networks :)
He's got more or less the same arguments you have and I'm still not
entirely convinced ("the RFC says so" is also not a good reasoning)
since I still think in enterprise networks you've got the advantage of
some control over your clients and can disable PE globally (just create
a file /etc/sysctl.d/99-no-pe.conf) or block PE enabled systems. OTOH
does the average home user know nothing about PE and how to enable them.
(Well, not that the average home users uses Ubuntu but thats a different
problem.) So I still think the advantage of not being easily trackable
on a global scale per default outweights enterprise needs to track
people locally. But until somebody else with better arguments than me
speaks up, I'll shut up :)
I guess what really would settle this issue once and for all would be
another flag in the RA to disable PE (cf. RFC 5175).
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Ubuntu should activate the IPv6 privacy extension by default (echo 2
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