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IP reputation is a tough problem with a lot of establishment behind v4. Even if they were to build up v6 reputation, since v6 addresses are cheaper, wouldn't they have lower rep?
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The "reputation" concept has to be applied to network blocks in IPv6, because of privacy addresses, and they very clearly aren't doing that for whatever reason. I get at least one captcha a day from a stock Android phone that's been connecting from the same damn /64 for almost a whole year.

But there are way more /64s than /32s. They could apply it to /32s in ipv6, but then customers would share rep unless ISPs lease out /32s instead. Unfortunately gotta pay to play.

That could never work, my entire ISP is a /32

I'm guessing because the spec defines a network as a /64. Couldn't the ISP buy more space if they wanted to?



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