On 2 June 2016 at 10:02, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:

On 06/02/2016 09:58 AM, James Knott wrote:
> IPv6 is quite different in this regard, from IPv4, in that ISPs are
> supposed to provide at least a /64 prefix, which means the first 64 bits
> are the network address and the remaining 64, for addresses on the local
> network.

Forgot to mention, some people are advocating /48 prefixes be handed out
to everyone. That's 80 bits for the local portion of the address.
There are enough /48s to give well over 4000 of them to every person on
earth and this is with about 3/4 of the IPv6 addresses not yet being
allocated for any purpose. So, with IPv6, sharing a single address,
through NAT, is a thing of the past.

The spammers and people trying to break in to machines are going to have to up their game.

The number of IP addresses has increased exponentially.

Of course once the number of rooted machines increases exponentially the virus traffic alone will choke the net

Dave