[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Nathanael Bettridge]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Andrews [mailto:marka at isc.org]
> In message
> <429C4C9BB681C54C828A0B8B353DCE551E284A7D at svr2012.pc.local>,
> Nathana
> el Bettridge writes:
> >
> > I wonder how long before the AGs office realizes v6 can let them track
> > usage of individual devices (for the data retention stuff), and mandates
> > v6 and the disabling of privacy extensions?
> 
> They don't track individual devices with IPv4 today.  A IPv6 /48
> is just as good as a IPv4 /32.  There is too much NAT to get to
> individual devices today.

I know - the NAT presents a barrier to the use of the data at the moment.
With an IPv6 world though this goes away. The carrier is nicely going to be collecting data on individual device for them. They only need to track the same given device with a given IPv6 address to get useful info.

> 
> To make their job easier they may mandate /48's for every consumer
> so they don't need to track what size prefixes are being handed
> out.

As long as they can get the carrier to match the prefix to a customer, they can use that to further identify the device based on the collected data. It'd be a data gold mine for the various agencies and potentially for copyright enforcers too.

I don't like this possibility btw. It just seems obvious to me.


- Nathanael Bettridge