Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

[Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>]

On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Matt Addison wrote:

> On Jul 26, 2011, at 20:08, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > There's a subtle but significant difference between what cookies give you,
> > which is "This is the same entity that visited our page at 7:48PM last
> > Tuesday", and what easily trackable IP addresses give you, which is "This is an
> > entity located at 1948 Durhof Street".
>
> With how much identifying information user agents leak nowadays [1]
> this is almost a moot point. If you can be uniquely identified through
> the user agent- does it really matter that they can uniquely ID the
> household as well based on prefix information?


That depends on what happens when ISPs do start giving residences /48s and ARIN starts asking for the SWIP details on 
blocks that large.

Matthew Kaufman