Hi all,

About the Internet Protocol Version 6 proposal [found at IPv6.org],
concerned people point to "the privacy issue contingent with IPv6 - namely
that one part of the new IP address would be the hardware address of the
network interface card it runs through".
Comments like:" it is a 'feature' rather than a trap door:"  are just
raising smokescreens

"The idea behind having fixed-width, 64-bit wide host identifiers is that
they aren't assigned manually as in IPv4. Instead, v6 host addresses are
recommended (not mandated!) to be built from so-called EUI64 addresses.
EUI64 addresses are -- as the name says -- 64-bits wide, and derived from
MAC addresses of the underlying network interface. For example, with
Ethernet, the 6-byte (48-bit) MAC address is usually filled with the hex
bits "fffe" in the middle -- the MAC address."

See also http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_6.16.html

So my  plead is : "Abandon IPv6..now!"

Touchwood