<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 16 Mar 2026, 16:40 Go Group - Go Pages - Go Ogle - Go Live 2/6/26, <<a href="mailto:gogroup.au@gmail.com" target="_blank">gogroup.au@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">G'Day Mark<div><br></div><div>Now that we are all in the cloud & a lot of IPV4 ranges were abandoned over the past 2 decades, although I do notice a few wanting to be on-prem. IPV4 recently, I don't see the need for IPV6, this is an interesting doc, but ITs not a bus.case</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I'm guessing you only work on Enterprise networks?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Most enterprise networks don't have the problem IPv6 solves - not enough IPv4 addresses - because they're using RFC1918 private addresses in combination with NAT.</div><div><br></div><div>Places where IPv6 is being deployed are where private IPv4 addresses aren't adequate or where NAT capacity is expensive - primarily residential ISPs including on mobile networks.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 50% of Google's access is over IPv6:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html">https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>APNIC are also measuring IPv6 use:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/">https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you think IPv6 isn't being deployed and used, you're just not looking in the right places.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mark.</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Look at the price / sales of IPV4 dirt cheap & I'm not talking about becoming an ISP & getting 1K of IPV4 for 'free' as part of the sign on with ACMA ( BTW - I have worked at ACMA )</div><div><br></div><div>I have been writing code for 50 years & socket apps. for many decades in Assem , Basic & C ( ABC ) & was analyzing WAN traffic in mid. '90s & nothing has changed, spammers can be detected in real time & our No Spam Accepted ( NSA ) has not had a spam msg in ~25 years - Time Tested ???</div><div><br></div><div>BTW - I see u are talking about performance, my idea has always been why provide criminals with a gr8 experience, I want my link to be very slow & our NSA tech. puts suspects to sleep, often for 5 secs. per SMTP session before refusing to accept msg.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 14:34, Mark Smith <<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">"It's not an April Fools joke!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger.<br><br><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-6man-ipv6-over-nothing/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-6man-ipv6-over-nothing/</a></div>
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