At 19:51 26-11-2013, Richard Barnes wrote:
be able to. The people who would deploy this sort of policy
mechanism cannot change the 802.11 protocols their WiFi chipsets
use, but they *can* change an SSID or parse an SSID. If you wait
IEEE to make a standard, and vendors to build it, and ... well, I'll
see you in a few years.
The proposal has been implemented in the Securifi Almond WiFi
Router. It is also supported by Mozilla and Google.
draft-hoehrmann-nomap-00 does not contain any occurrence of the word
"privacy". According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, "Google
has complied with the requirement to inform those involved, both
online and off-line, about the processing of WiFi data and about the
possibility of registering their refusal by means of an opt-out
possibility". I suggest having some text to discuss the privacy
angle. The draft could discuss the pros and cons of the identifier convention.
Yes, it's a hack, but the Internet lives on hacks. And people are
using it, so what's the harm in documenting it? To make an analogy,
how many RFCs for v4/v6 transition schemes do we have that slam an
IPv4 address into an IPv6 address?
A lot. :-)
Regards,
-sm