[techsec-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] Resilience Featuresof IPv6, DNSSEC and MPLS and Deployment Scenarios

> http://www.enisa.europa.eu/sta/files/resilience_features.pdf Please
> spread the words among your colleagues and peers.

the word i would spread is that this is more marketing than actual
operational reality.  a survey by the wishful as opposed to the technical.

to illustrate, take the first technical point it tries to make

> In terms of resilience, IPv6 could address a noteworthy source of
> vulnerabilities. It is harder to launch opportunistic attacks such
> as worms against IPv6 hosts and makes reconnaissance probing much
> more difficult due to the vastness of the address space. The
> simplified packet headers and the lack of packet fragmentation make
> packet processing by routers easier and more robustly.

now go look at http://www.usipv6.com/6sense/2007/jan/article01.htm

oh, and ipv6 has fragmentation.

randy