Re: IPv6 mail, was Let's try to be productive...

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In message <[email protected]>, John Levine
<[email protected]> writes

>The large v6 address space also makes it possible to do stuff like
>assign known bulk senders specific IPs to send to

If IPv6 email really takes off (and that certainly won't be soon (IMO)
apart from some special cases), then we might very well see ISPs and/or
the really big mail handlers (Gmail, Yahoo &c) using one IPv6 address
per account ...

... this will allow people to block (or perhaps whitelist) specific
people who are using mass platforms without having to agonise over the
pain of blocking "the whole of gmail/whatever"

>, either by telling
>them (ESPs will do anything you tell them to if they think it will
>improve their deliverability by 0.1%)

ESPs will rapidly adopt anything that prevents compromised customer A or
wicked customer B spoiling the party for paying customers C, D, E....

... and given that IPv6 reception will run ahead of IPv6 sending and
adoption by the few large sites will run ahead of adoption by the many
medium or small ones, we may see this very soon.

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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