Re: user-relative names - was:[Re: Yahoo and IPv6]

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On May 17, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

> --- joelja () bogus com wrote:
> From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
> On May 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Scott Brim wrote:
> > On May 17, 2011 6:26 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:19 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
> > >
> > > > What about privacy concerns
> > >
> > > "Privacy is dead.  Get used to it." -- Scott McNeely
> >
> > Forget that attitude, Valdis. Just because privacy is blown at one level
> > doesn't mean you give it away at every other one. We establish the framework
> > for recovering privacy and make progress step by step, wherever we can.
> > Someday we'll get it all back under control.
>
> if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to discovered. scoping the nameservers such that they only 
> express certain certain resource records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly straight forward.
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> The article was not about DNS.  It was about "Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices" where 
> "Users normally create personal names by introducing devices locally, on a common WiFi network for example. Once 
> created, these names remain persistently bound to their targets as devices move. Personal names are intended to 
> supplement and not replace global DNS names."  

you mean like mac addresses? those have a tendency to follow you around in ipv6...

> I see a lot of folks on lists designing future networks where an identifier follows you everywhere and we as 
> operators will have to deal with a public hostile to the idea of being followed.  It's happening now.  Just read all 
> the articles on privacy lost.  It's not going to go away.  People like their privacy whether they're doing bad things 
> or not.
>
> scott