> From: mrex@xxxxxxx (Martin Rex)
> To me, IPv6 PA prefixes look like a pretty useless feature (from the
> customer perspective).
Far be it from me to defend IPv6, but... I don't see the case here.
Our house is pretty typical of the _average_ consumer - we have a provider
suppplied PA address (IPv4, but the principles are the same), which they seem
to change on a fairly regular basis as they renumber/reorganize their
network. However, as we don't run any servers/services, we don't care. Thanks
to the magic of DHCP, etc, everything 'just works'. So for the _average_
customer (who are 99.9...% of their customers), PA is just fine.
> you want some level of privacy protection and therefore a fully dynamic
> temporary DHCP-assigned IPv6 address
This turns out to be a chimera. Such addresses don't really provide any real
privacy - it turns out to be easy to track people through their access
patterns, etc.
Noel