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On Friday, 7 July 2023 at 11:41:32 BST, Etienne Victor Depasquale
<[email protected]> wrote:
> My research suggests, and I wouldn't mind being rubbished,> that as long as
> CSPs can continue to meet demands with a technology, > then the cost of
> investment in newer technology > is a significant impediment to its adoption.
Exactly. I still don't want to be the party pooper, but here's what I said
more than 25 years ago:
proposal for RIPE's IPv6-address space structure lir-wg — RIPE Network
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It's a universal truth, path of least cost (just see what happens with routing
if you mess with that). However bizarre CGNAT may seem, it's a hard sell that
people should pay more for their Internet so that their traffic can travel by
way of a better protocol; especially if the introduction of that better
protocol is guaranteed to cause disruption and upheaval. And TBH I think it's
a bit dangerous if the use of particular protocols was to be dictated for
reasons of some perceived superiority (be that technical, scientific,
political, imaginary, or whatever). Some 30 years ago the use of OSI
protocols was effectively a political demand in certain environments; scary,
very scary.
Best,
-- Per
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