Bad wording on my part. I wasn't trying to imply their statement was true--just a bit of humor.
-A On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:09 PM Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 22, 2019, at 17:47 , Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:52 AM Blake Hudson <bl...@ispn.net> wrote: > >> This is absolutely an issue with Xbox Live/Sony PSN or RBLs used by mail >> servers for reputation purposes. For better or worse these systems equate >> one IPv4 address == one user (and possibly one IPv6 /64 == one user). My >> opinion is that this may be a reasonable or "good enough" assumption >> > > Talk to someone who has been sued for downloading or sharing movies. > They'll swear on their own grave that one IP can never equal one user. ;) > > -A > > > I’ll swear it’s a horrible assumption. > > Personally, I use many IP addresses each day. > Some of them are also used by others. > Some of them are not. > > Equating IP Address <-> Person relationships as being anything remotely > resembling 1:1 is beyond absurd. To do so with an IPv6 /64 is even more so. > > Considering it to be reasonable or “good enough” is so far from valid I > don’t even know where to begin. > > Owen > >