RE: trying to reconcile two threads

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf at tndh.net>]

Eric Rosen wrote:
> The  cable companies want
> to  charge per
> computer, and  the only way they  can do this is  to count
> the  number of IP
> addresses they  see.

They will eventually learn that with IPv6 there is no predictable
correspondence between machine and the number of addresses it has. Since
their customers will insist on using the privacy option to avoid
traceability as they move around, every node will have as many addresses
per day as the customer believes are necessary to mask that movement. In
this context, movement does not only imply physically moving the device,
but the logical movement from one web shopping site to another. It is
reasonable to expect the paranoid to set their policy to randomize the
address on every new connection.

Tony