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<p id="reply-intro">On 25/09/2023 15:00, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:</p>
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IPv6 adoption in Australia (and NZ) is a bit behind the curve, internationally.</div>
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<div>A bit? We're dragging our heels :) Very strange too since Geoff is from AU, in fact my home city, fun fact, until I move about 15 years ago we apparently lived one street apart.</div>
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<div>I'm not sure how old you are, but I could imagine things going pretty quickly from some point onwards.</div>
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<div>Not too distant from retirement, like to think I'd still be kickin on for further 25 or so after that</div>
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<p>The point is that an IPv4 allocation is no longer a resource unless you have an active need for it. </p>
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<p>Reminds me of a blog post a few years ago I did that showed how many well known prominent websites were not reachable by ipv6, I should grab that list and recheck them to see how many fail today.</p>
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<p>Incidentally, goodwill isn't the only intangible asset that's worth something - my father used to work in that space for decades and I earned extra pocket money proofreading an M&A textbook for practitioners, and I can tell you that the true list was long, even 40 years ago...</p>
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<p>Interesting, depends on industry I guess, with hosting, it's just the goodwill (userbase), you only own the physical assets that provide the services, you cant own a client, nor own their data, same thing for (most) ISP's and RSP's, but I guess in other industries there could be other things, and since they don't apply to me I'm ignorant of them.</p>
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<p>You only really "need" IPv4 if you operate a network with a lot of servers that see inbound traffic from random clients in networks you have no control over. </p>
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<p>You just named 99.9R% of the services in the world.</p>
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<p>Not sure what you're projecting as your lifetime ;-)</p>
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<p>I hope 90 odd, but if I don't retire soon it'll be substantially less haha</p>
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<p>Regards,<br />Noel Butler</p>
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