Yes. Risker has understood.
Her word "masking" means for me, that we would like to make it hard or create a high hurdle, for third parties wanting to find or prove a link between the public displayed ID of non-logged in users and other off-site ID such as their IP address that can be used to externally correlate or identify a real-world individual. (Which is not really any more than we do for logged in users)
What exact label is publicly displayed is secondary. Otherwise pseudonymity wouldn't work either. Its functions are (1) attribution, (2) a convenient shorthand for "the unknown real world individual responsible for this edit" in wiki-discussions, and (3) some minimal consistency of identification.
FT2
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 June 2012 14:09, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote: (more snipping)
I believe that FT2 is saying that we should seriously consider masking the *publicly viewable* IPv6 addresses. The only reason that we publish the IP addresses of any logged-out user is for attribution purposes, although some use it for other reasons (both positive and nefarious). Quite honestly, it doesn't matter what information is put in place in the publicly viewable logs, provided it's consistent.
Risker