On 25/09/2023 15:00, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:

>> 
> IPv6 adoption in Australia (and NZ) is a bit behind the curve, 
> internationally.

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.

> 

> I'm not sure how old you are, but I could imagine things going pretty 
> quickly from some point onwards.

Not too distant from retirement, like to think I'd still be kickin on 
for further 25 or so after that

> The point is that an IPv4 allocation is no longer a resource unless you 
> have an active need for it.

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.

> 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...

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.

> 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.

You just named 99.9R% of the services in the world.

> Not sure what you're projecting as your lifetime ;-)

I hope 90 odd, but if I don't retire soon it'll be substantially less 
haha

-- 
Regards,
Noel Butler

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