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<p id="reply-intro">On 25/09/2023 04:30, Michael Richardson wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> > FUD they came out with in mid 90's about IPv4's imminent demise giving<br /><br />I think you malign Geoff to no purpose.<br /><br />Geoff Houston is brilliant in putting up well thought out strawmans<br />(strawmen? Strawpeople?), often with the goal of cristalizing what exactly we don't like about them.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">So, we only use the facts that suite our arguments?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Only way to make informed decisions is to consider all aspects, even the ones we cover our eyes with, you know, can't see it so it isn't happening type ones :)</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> > It's also like the local water board here who last week came out saying a<br /> > whopping 70% of people surveyed said they'd drink recycled water, of course<br /> > it was the local water board that conducted this alleged survey, because >90%<br /> > of the more independent polling shows a totally different story.<br /><br />I've never seen such independent polling. I've seen water bottle company polls :-)</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">The water board in Queensland Australia did just that, countered by media polling, now, and over the past 10 years.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">If you think IPv4 is fine, then Geoff's architecture, with 0.0.0.0/1 being for<br />eyeballs NAT44, 128.0.0.0/3 for institutions and SDN and class C being<br />swamp/infrastructure should work just fine. The question is how to get<br />there.</div>
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<p>Please quote my post where I said ipv4 is fine, I don't seem to have it in sent mail, and if it was all okie dokie, I wouldn't have been running ipv6 myself for past 10½ years ;)</p>
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<p>Regards,<br />Noel Butler</p>
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