[governance] Re: ITU and ICANN - a loveless forced marriage

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <
bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:42:15PM +0530,
>  Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote
>  a message of 1704 lines which said:
>
> > What concerns me is the fact that IPV6 seems to have obviated (or
> > made impossible) Network Address Translation.
>
> Making NAT unnecessary was certainly one of the requirements of
> IPv6. Making it impossible would have been... impossible. Even with
> IPv6, people still have the ability to do stupid things like NAT.
>
> > This means that everything that I ever say on the Internet is linked
> > to my unique, unchangeable IPV6 address.
>
> Completely wrong: even if you don't move your physical location and
> you do not change your ISP, you can still use the temporary
> untraceable addresses of RFC 4941 'Privacy Extensions for Stateless
> Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6'.
>
> On Linux:
>
> net/ipv6/conf/default/use_tempaddr = 1
>
> in /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> > (this comment in particular without in-depth knowledge of the
> > technical architecture of IPV6)
>
> Indeed.
>

Thank you. I have learnt a little more about ipV6 from your helpful
clarification.

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