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Dear 802 member, There has been a fair amount of discussion in
various 802-related email threads in the context of 802c, use of the
“locally administered address space” and privacy. As I understand it, 802c is proposing a means to
allocate from the locally administered address space, in order to solve the matter of assigning MAC addresses to virtual
machines. There has been discussion of using randomised local
MAC addresses as a means of preventing tracking/surveillance of
devices that use a static MAC address. This is
potentially a concern for 802 wireless devices that have a 48-bit MAC
address. At first sight these two requirements seem to
compete for the use of the locally administered MAC addresses. Given the cross-WG interests here, and given that
the 802 EC has to decide on approval of the 802c PAR on friday of the November 802 session, a session will be
held on Monday 3rd November, 2014 (in the vacant “tutorial
#3” slot) at 9:30-10:30pm (Logistics and Agenda TBC by the 802 EC). I suggest the purpose of this meeting is primarily
technical one. Below is a non-exclusive list of possible topics. Please indicate your intention to present, plus
title of your presentation to the 802 EC recording secretary, John
D’Ambrosia
Possible topics: ·
Are randomized MAC addresses
effective in any sense? Are they necessary? ·
What size of address space is
effective for randomization ·
What technical issue is 802c solving ·
What are the likely solutions for
802c ·
What are the rules governing the use
of the locally administered address space ·
What are the current uses of the
locally administered address space ·
Are the needs of 802c and MAC address
privacy necessarily in conflict? Best
Regards, Adrian P
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