Software licensing using IPv6 addresses?

[Brian E Carpenter]

Ted,

> The MAC address dependency can be easily defeated by hard coding the
> needed MAC into the network device driver and of course the IP address
> dependency can be defeated by putting the device behind a translator,
> but it is still a nuisance, and it is less of a nuisance to just
> e-mail for a new key.

Not if renumbering is to be automated, which is why we are analysing
the cases where static addressing is needed.

Thanks for the input. Oh, and do these vendors license users who
are Net 10?

Regards
   Brian Carpenter