Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6

Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by notproductive on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @09:54PM (#7671130)

IPv6 addresses are determined by the computer MAC address, some governments must be excited about this feature.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by nutjob2 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:15PM (#7671207)

That's entirely misleading.

The MAC address is used if you autoconfigure IPv6, it's not required. Also you can enable privacy by requesting your host to generate a random host identifier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by stephen_g on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:02AM (#7671541)

I believe pretty much every single IP stack implementation uses privacy extensions by default now.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by justincormack on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:03AM (#7672248)

Actually I don't think that is true yet. FreeBSD does not by default for example.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by politician on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @11:55PM (#7671525)

It's not entirely misleading if you can imagine a certain government requiring registration of devices before allowing access to networks like the Internet.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by kiallmacinnes on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:25AM (#7672329)

I'm not sure I see how IPv6 would really make that any easier? Privicy extensions or not...

Forging a MAC address is trivial.. If that's all you use to enforce the registration, it will be trivial to bypass!

And - if government wants to do this.. There are easier ways.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by DiabloD3 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:24PM (#7671241)

That is completely false. Most IPv6 in use right now is statically assigned, not automated, and not all automated systems use MAC to make a unique IP.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by justincormack on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:06AM (#7672256)

I don't think thats true, I think most is automated. There are people like Comcast just allocating ipv6 automatically, that far outnumbers manual setup.

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Re:Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6 by mikeash on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:15PM (#7671204)

There's nothing that requires this. IPv6 addresses can be ephemeral and not tied to hardware identifiers.

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