[170247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Mar 25 13:51:34 2014
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:51:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140325172328.5224.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, John Levine wrote:
> It says a lot about the state of the art that people are still making
> uninformed guesses like this, non ironically.
Yep, SMTP and the whole spam fighting part of the Internet, isn't ready
for IPv6. This is not IPv6 fault.
I have repeatedly tried to get people interested in methods of making it
possible for ISPs to publish their "per-customer" allocation size, so far
without any success. Most of the time I seem to get "we did it a certain
way for IPv4, it works, we don't want to change it" from people.
IPv6 changes things. Lots of things. There will be a lot of work to catch
up. It's too bad that the part of the ecosystem that fights spam have
woken up so late.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
