The IESG has received a request from the Internet Area Working Group WG (intarea) to consider the following document: - 'Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful' <draft-ietf-intarea-hostname-practice-03.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-01-19. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Giving a hostname to your computer and publishing it as you roam from one network to another is the Internet equivalent of walking around with a name tag affixed to your lapel. This current practice can significantly compromise your privacy, and something should change in order to mitigate these privacy threads. There are several possible remedies, such as fixing a variety of protocols or avoiding disclosing a hostname at all. This document describes some of the protocols that reveal hostnames today and sketches another possible remedy, which is to replace static hostnames by frequently changing randomized values. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-hostname-practice/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-hostname-practice/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
