The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation Layer Mechanisms' (draft-ietf-6lo-privacy-considerations-04.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Suresh Krishnan and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-privacy-considerations/ Technical Summary This document discusses how a number of privacy threats apply to technologies designed for IPv6 over various link layer protocols, and provides advice to protocol designers on how to address such threats in adaptation layer specifications for IPv6 over such links. Working Group Summary This document educates the 6lo community in that it lists potential threats to privacy and some potential mitigations. It also has guidance for different adaptation layers on how to evaluate how relevant are the threats and how practical are the mitigations. In this sense, this document is also about tradeoffs, as such it has benefitted from f2f and email list discussion. In the process it has benefitted and has also helped ongoing document in the working group address privacy issues. Document Quality The document has received significant amount of review both from people in the WG. It is non prescriptive, so its guidance will influence ongoing work in more typical drafts on IPv6 adaptation, and those will get implemented in due time. Personnel Document shepherd is Gabriel Montenegro Responsible AD is Suresh Krishnan
