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                Date: 1999-10-13
                 
                 
                Korrektur: IPv6 Protokoll
                
                 
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      Sorry an alle, die es erkannt und darauf schon reagiert  
haben: es wurde der falsche Text attachiert und kausal damit  
nexiert. Die Privacy Concerns resultieren aus dieser  
Kernpassage des u.a. Texts aus dem Electronic Privacy  
Information Center. 
Any Comments welcome. 
 
"The IETF has designated 64 bits of the new space to  
contain EUI-64 format information, which is used to assign  
Ethernet addresses. That information, which is generally not  
transmitted outside a user's local area network, forms the  
basis of the privacy concerns raised by some observers of  
the IETF process. 
 
The EUI-64 information identifies the registered manufacturer  
of a NIC card and a user's 48-bit Ethernet address.  This has  
led some critics to claim that every packet a user sends out  
onto the Internet using IPv6 will have the user's "fingerprints"  
on it.  Unlike IP addresses under IPv4, which can be  
changed, IPv6 addresses will be permanently embedded in  
hardware. " 
 
 
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A new protocol being developed by the Internet Engineering  
Task Force (IETF) has raised privacy concerns.  Internet  
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the "next generation" protocol  
designed by the IETF to replace the current version Internet  
Protocol (IPv4), which is now nearly twenty years old.  IPv6 is  
intended to fix a number of problems in IPv4, such as the  
limited number of available IPv4 addresses.  It would also add  
improvements in areas such as routing and network  
autoconfiguration. 
 
The new addressing structure, however, may mean that every  
packet can be traced back to each user's unique network  
interface card ID. Whereas IPv4 has a 32-bit address field,  
IPv6 has 128 bits of address space.  The IETF has  
designated 64 bits of the new space to contain EUI-64 format  
information, which is used to assign Ethernet addresses.  
That information, which is generally not transmitted outside a  
user's local area network, forms the basis of the privacy  
concerns raised by some observers of the IETF process. 
 
The EUI-64 information identifies the registered manufacturer  
of a NIC card and a user's 48-bit Ethernet address.  This has  
led some critics to claim that every packet a user sends out  
onto the Internet using IPv6 will have the user's "fingerprints"  
on it.  Unlike IP addresses under IPv4, which can be  
changed, IPv6 addresses will be permanently embedded in  
hardware.  In that respect, IPv6 raises many of the same  
issues that surrounded the launch of the Intel Pentium III,  
which contains a "Processor Serial Number" (PSN) that is  
capable of uniquely identifying the user of a particular  
computer.  Both IPv6 and the PSN present potential  
challenges to online anonymity, which is a fundamental  
guarantee of both privacy and free expression on the Internet. 
 
Additional information on IPv6 is available at: 
 
http://www.ipv6.org/
                   
 
Additional information on the Intel Pentium III PSN is  
available at: 
 
http://www.bigbrotherinside.org  
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published on: 1999-10-13 
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