On 8/26/2010 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Apart from that, it's scare-mongering. Consider that the basic model for IPv6 is not fundamentally different than IPv4; why would the underlying security vulnerabilities be fundamentally different?
well, just to give that question its due, interesting changes in details can sometimes produce interesting changes in the behavior of a model and therefore of its implications.
in this case, the vastly larger address space of IPv6 permits attackers to switch to new addresses at a rate that was not possible with IPv4. this is likely to defeat the substantial infrastructure of attack-tracking that is address-based, such as for anti-spam.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf