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Document: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-privacy-03
Reviewer: Robert Sparks
Review Date: 2Feb2015
IETF LC End Date:4Feb2015
IESG Telechat date: Not yet scheduled
Summary: Ready with nits that should be addressed before publication
The reference to ietf-6man-ivp6-address-generation-privacy should be
normative, and when this document is pointing to it because it is
discussing a field carrying a generated address, it should be more
explicit about why it's making the reference.
In section 4.3 the paragraph on Hash allocation should note that even a
well implemented hash does not mitigate the threat of correlation over time.
In section 4.3, the paragraph on Random allocation comments on the poor
performance of a specific simplistic implementation of random selection.
More efficient algorithms exist. But the discussion is mostly irrelevant
to the document. Please simplify this paragraph to focus on the benefits
of random allocation.
Should section 5.3 also call out mapping IP addresses into geolocation?
Why doesn't section 5.5 also talk about things like MAC addresses?
Section 5.6 could probably borrow words from RFC7258 - it should at
least reference it (currently there is only a reference from the
introduction.)