On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:19:43AM -0000, Teo wrote:
in IPv6 there is a hardware component to the way the IP address is
constructed,
which will most likely never been seen outside the LAN, as routers will
either not route the addresses or will rewrite them.
also the plan is to allocate the non-hardware ranges by
geographical region. This might also help if you then set your email client
/ server spam filter to only accept mail from your chosen countries, leaving
out the wilder regions of the globe.
The plan is obsolete. Current allocation practise has already broken
this concept.
Also blocking mails based on geographical information is not a solution
to the problem.
Current allocation practise is to allocate at least /64 blocks. That are
2^64 addresses. This means everyone will have at least 2^64 addresses.
In a small company this will be fun: Hack one host and grab the
2^64-10 or so free addresses and you can send each spam mail from a
different IPv6 address.
IPv6 will not contribute to solving the spam problem in any way.
\Maex
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