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by MrDOS 65 days ago
> easier to do bad things like "charge for individual internet user in a home."

This idea comes up in every HN conversation about IPv6, and so I suppose this time it's my turn to point out RFC 8981[0]. tl;dr: typically, machines which receive IPv6 address assignment via SLAAC (functional equivalent of DHCP) periodically cycle their addresses. Supposed to offer pretty effective protection against host-counting.

0: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981