consistentAddress, IPv6 and Happy Eyeballs

[Russ Allbery]

"Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

> I seem to be the only piece of code in the world that still does
> anything with IP addresses, and I'm starting to wonder if that's really
> on me to maintain if IPv6 is clearly telling people they should treat
> them as unstable.

FWIW, we gave up on trying to bind web authentications to email addresses
about ten years ago.  At the time, the problem was asymmetric proxies, but
it's just another instance of the same thing.

The Kerberos community has pretty much given up on address-locked tickets
for similar reasons.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>