Re: [STDS-802-11] Updated (early) draft of response to WBA lisison on MA

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Mark,

I have added some comments to Thomas’ and generally agree with his points as well. What seems clear to me is that there is an assumed direct correlation between a “device” and a “MAC SAP” which is what a MAC address indentifies. A device may have many MAC SAPs using a variety of communication interfaces (CIs); e.g. smart phones which have multiple 802.11 interfaces along with 802.15 interfaces, etc.. This significantly complicates the issues of anonymization via randomization of the MAC layer address of any one of the CIs in the “device”. The point is, randomization of a MAC address anonymizes a CI, not a device unless that is the only CI on the device which is rarely the case nowadays.

Point is: randomization of layer-2 addresses for the purposes of anonymization is a system/device issue, not a single CI issue. That said, I am not sure how to raise this issue to the appropriate level and will leave it to you all to make that call!:^)))

Cheers,

From: Thomas Derham [mailto:00000ad2eabc2931-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 8:00 PM
To: STDS-802-11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-11] Updated (early) draft of response to WBA lisison on MAC address randomization

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Hi Mark

Thanks for preparing this draft. Please find some comments attached.

Best wishes

Thomas

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:58 PM Mark Hamilton <mark.hamilton2152@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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All,

I have extended my early draft of the liaison response to the WBA, on MAC address randomization, by adding speculative edits for the topics we have addressed in detail in ARC (yet). The draft is here: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/18/11-18-1988-01-0arc-proposed-response-to-liaison-from-wba-on-mac-address-randomization-impcats.docx

Please review, if you have interest in this topic. I’m very happy to get any comments on content or tone/style.

This will be discussed in the ARC meeting this morning (Thursday AM2), to provide a clean proposed draft to the WG for review and approval at the closing plenary. Anyone with interest is welcome and encouraged to attend the ARC meeting, if possible.

Thanks! Mark

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