On Jan 16 2005, John Levine wrote:
Does the wide spread adoption of IPv6 help solve the SPAM problem in any
way?
No. Despite occasional rumors to the contrary, we don't have any
trouble figuring out what IPv4 address each message comes from now,
but knowing the addresses is only a small part of dealing with spam.
My (very limited) understanding is that IPv6 offers a significantly
expanded address space. Such a large address space could in principle be
subdivided in much more complex ways than we have now. For example,
ISPs might be able to subdivide their allotted space in standard ways
according to service and type of customer (assuming such a standard
was developed etc). This might make IPv6 address analysis and
filtering much more powerful (e.g. all residential customers would have
a "residential" flag embedded in their IPv6 address etc).
I don't think IPv6 would help with anything requiring content analysis.
--
Laird Breyer.
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