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by dark-star 1227 days ago
> With IPv6 support and adoption a whole network could be set up independent of any other authority besides BGP. Which requires nation-state levels of mobilization just to block an address, with fallout affecting literally thousands of others.

This is not how it works. Taking down a single IPv6 IP address (or whole AS) is a very simple thing and is done daily to combat spam and DDoS attacks, without requiring "nation-state levels of mobilization" (whatever that means). Also there is essentially no "fallout" at all in IPv6, and there isn't any fallout in IPv4, too, since BGP routes can be as specific as a single host