Technical Summary
This document discusses how a number of privacy threats apply to
technologies designed for IPv6 over various link layer protocols, and
provides advice to protocol designers on how to address such threats
in adaptation layer specifications for IPv6 over such links.
Working Group Summary
This document educates the 6lo community in that it lists potential
threats to privacy and some potential mitigations. It also has guidance
for different adaptation layers on how to evaluate how relevant are the
threats and how practical are the mitigations. In this sense, this
document is also about tradeoffs, as such it has benefitted from f2f and
email list discussion. In the process it has benefitted and has also
helped ongoing document in the working group address privacy issues.
Document Quality
The document has received significant amount of review both from people
in the WG. It is non prescriptive, so its guidance will influence
ongoing work in more typical drafts on IPv6 adaptation, and those will
get implemented in due time.
Personnel
Document shepherd is Gabriel Montenegro
Responsible AD is Suresh Krishnan