Re: IPv6 Ignorance

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Sep 16, 2012, at 16:58 , John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> > > IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them.
> > > For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the
> > > opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that
> > > techniques from IPv4 to map who's doing what where don't scale.
> >
> > Well, in IPv4...  NAT broke it, because  networks implementing 1:many
> > NAT could no longer easily identify what host was responsible for abuse.
>
> I realize that's a problem in theory, in practice it's not because it's still rare to have interestingly different 
> hosts behind a single NAT.

CGN should solve that and convert theory to practice quite effectively.

Owen