From: Joerg Micheel (joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 17:16:23 PST
Cristian,
this topic has been discussed intensily, more in private than in public.
I think there is support for your ideas, but you have to prove that it
is technically impossible to breach anyones security and privacy. You
are suggesting to preserve more of the structure that is contained in
todays IP addresses (networks and subnetworks). With the information
where the trace was captured and the IP address structure preserved it is
fairly easy to regain the IP address of certain machines, breaking the
original claim that we are doing a safe job here. There is a borderline
where we are risking the entire project of passive measurements when people
start feeling insecure about our measurement and postprocessing procedures.
Some (very useful) measurements are not well suited for a public
measurement infrastructure and are better carried out in a controlled
environment (such as at your local university).
If you have a measurement experiment that you wish to run requiring
the information you are talking about, we might be able to run your
code on the infrastructure, provided the generated output needs the
above security and privacy concerns and the experiment is of sufficient
interest to the project.
My $0.02 (NZ$ anyways).
Joerg
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