Is the fact that the author of the piece is the CEO of a company peddling an IPv4 address management scheme relevant to the credibility of the unusual claims he is making?
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 1:51 PM John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A piece in TechRadar says:
Devices that use IPv4 to connect to the internet use less power than
gadgets running on IPv6. A report by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) has found, by comparing identical smartphones running on
IPv4 and IPv6 respectively, that IPv6 requires roughly 5% more power
to run. 5% may seem like a small amount, but when multiplied by a
billion or two, that number becomes a significant energy expenditure.
It then goes on to say that the solution is to forget IPv6 and instead
lease IPv4 addresses. By an astonishing coincidence, the author is a guy
who leases IPv4 addresses.
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-environmental-opportunity-of-unused-ipv4s
You do not have to tell me this is nonsense, the IETF doesn't produce
reports, and certainly not reports about phone power consumption (so
please don't.) But does anyone have any idea what this "report' might be?
R's,
John