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		IgorPartola on Jan 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Perman... One way would be that it would help identify individuals better since giant NATs will not be as popular. For example, I believe some IBM campuses are often all behind a single IP address.

pieter on Jan 17, 2012 | [–]

Not really; most OSes now enable ipv6 privacy extensions by default, which means a client will connect with a different IP every hour or so.

dedward on Jan 17, 2012 | | [–]

as nat was only a method of dealing with lack of address space, and not a security measure, hopefully nat will become very rare...

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