Michael Peddemors wrote:
On October 12, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
In summary: HE has worked tirelessly and mostly thanklessly to promote v6. They have done more to bring v6 to the forefront than any other network. But at the end of day, despite HE's valiant effort on v6, v6 has all the problems of v4 on the backbone, PLUS growing pains. Which means it is difficult to rely on it, as v4 has enough dangers on its own.
And don't forget.. Once IPv6 gets to the mainstream.. IP Reputation lists are going to have a real fun time :) Spammers would love to see IPv6 in place I am sure.
You seem to have concluded that blacklisting a prefix is much harder in ipv6 than it is in v4...
;) Routing IPv6 is going to require one heck of a thinking re- adjustment. Would be nice to just leave IPv6 in the premises, and keep IPv4 for routing.