ICR "Unique Identifiers"

Ian Batten igb at batten.eu.org
Wed Nov 11 17:13:52 GMT 2015


> On 5 Nov 2015, at 13:03, Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <e2ek3bp6mckp2ld9bv5hnvejdj9b5tlvgb at 4ax.com>, Marcus Williamson <marcus at connectotel.com> writes
> 
>> This statement in the document is false, as far as I can see from a technical
>> perspective:
>> 
>> "ICRs therefore provide the unique identifier to distinguish between different
>> users of a shared IP address"
> 
> I'm sure that this is about identifying the users behind carrier-grade-NAT.

I agree.

As one of my students asked after a lecture on, co-incidentally, the problems caused for law enforcement by CG NAT, 
“wouldn’t it be better for the government to spend the money encouraging IPv6?”

ian




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