[101099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Dec 18 01:06:23 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:59:09 GMT
To: smb@cs.columbia.edu
Cc: morrowc.lists@gmail.com, Sean.Siler@microsoft.com, nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
[re: v6 mythos]
>In a slightly more realistic vein, a huge address space makes life
>harder for scanning worms. As Angelos Keromytis, Bill Cheswick, and I
>have pointed out, "harder" is by no means equivalent to "impossible",
>but the myth, new as it is, still propagates.
And in fact, "threat propagation" in a v6 world may actually
be worse than expected, and naivet=E9 may actually contribute to
a larger-scale attack, given the statistical possibility of
potentially more victims.
Address space size, and proximity, may well be red herrings in
this discussion.
$.02,
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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