The IESG has received a request from the Internet Area Working Group WG (intarea) to consider the following document: - 'Privacy considerations for IP broadcast and multicast protocol designers' <draft-ietf-intarea-broadcast-consider-05.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 2018-01-16. 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 A number of application-layer protocols make use of IP broadcasts or multicast messages for functions like local service discovery or name resolution. Some of these functions can only be implemented efficiently using such mechanisms. When using broadcasts or multicast messages, a passive observer in the same broadcast/ multicast domain can trivially record these messages and analyze their content. Therefore, broadcast/multicast protocol designers need to take special care when designing their protocols. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-broadcast-consider/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-broadcast-consider/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
