[Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6

[MZMcBride]

John Du Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Erik, what time is this scheduled to go live?  And on which projects?
>> Please be specific here.
>> 
>> I am gravely concerned about the privacy issues that are attached to IPv6
>> IP addresses, as they are in many cases almost personally identifying
>> information, something that is not permitted to be released under our
>> privacy policy.  Have arrangements been made to hash these IP addresses to
>> prevent them from being publicly available?
> 
> What personal information do you think is contained in an IPv6 address?

I wondered what Risker was referring to as well, so I looked up IPv6 +
privacy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy>.

After reading that section, it's still unclear to me whether IPv6 is
significantly more privacy invasive than IPv4.

MZMcBride