Tastes like the ‘evil’ bit, in reverse. On Nov 25, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > My smartphone can turn into a Wifi access point so I can easily use > its Internet connection from my netbook. Problem is that nearby devices > I do not control might report my whereabouts to third parties that map > network equipment to geographic locations. A naming convention for net- > works has been proposed to address this, append "_nomap" to the network > name and "good actors" will ignore it. I thought it would be a good idea > to document this convention in a better place than a single vendor's > blog post, so two years ago today I published > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-nomap-00 > > I think this is a "better than nothing" mechanism and I am not the most > qualified person to document it, and there was pretty much no interest > in the document when I announced it. Still, especially considering more > and more organisations are collecting such data, I think this needs good > documentation. I am looking for volunteers, suggestions, whatever helps > getting that done without a lot of effort on my part... > > Thanks! > -- > Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxx · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de > Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de > 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/