I also wondered about this and any throttling-based protection / rate limiting based on IP. With IPv6 the address space is huge and makes blacklists far less effective (or much more memory consuming and slow, but that's something that can be resolved with things like Bloom Filters I imagine).
It would take some time to adapt implementations. I speculate this gives attackers some opportunities to use old-style hacks that were largely mitigated, but suddenly re-appear with IPv6.
I really like that.
How are RBLs and other useful internet institutions that work on the basis of IPv4 addresses along the way with their IPv6 adoption?