On Sep 16, 2012, at 16:58 , John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: >>> IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them. >>> For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the >>> opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that >>> techniques from IPv4 to map who's doing what where don't scale. >> >> Well, in IPv4... NAT broke it, because networks implementing 1:many >> NAT could no longer easily identify what host was responsible for abuse. > > I realize that's a problem in theory, in practice it's not because it's still > rare to have interestingly different hosts behind a single NAT. >
CGN should solve that and convert theory to practice quite effectively. Owen