Technical Summary
To limit the privacy issues created by the association between a
device, its traffic, its location, and its user, client and client
Operation System vendors have started implementing MAC address
randomization. When such randomization happens, some in-network
states may break, which may affect network connectivity and user
experience. At the same time, devices may continue using other
stable identifiers, defeating the MAC address randomization purposes.
This document lists various network environments and a set of network
services that may be affected by such randomization. This document
then examines settings where the user experience may be affected by
in-network state disruption. Last, this document examines solutions
to maintain user privacy while preserving user quality of experience
and network operation efficiency.
Working Group Summary
The WG consensus represent broad agreement, relative to the size of active
participants of the WG. It also counts with the support of the Wireless
Broadband Alliance (WBA), which has different members as participants to the
MADINAS WG and some liaisons.
No controversy in the WG, rather lack of energy though.
Document Quality
No implementation per se as the document describes some use cases (hence related implementations).
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Carlos J. Bernardos. The
Responsible Area Director is Éric Vyncke.