--On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 10:31 +1300 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 23-Nov-21 08:19, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> John Levine wrote on 22/11/2021 18:50: >>> But does anyone have any idea what this "report' might be? >> >> draft-petrescu-v6ops-ipv6-power-ipv4? >> >> The methodology raises questions about whether the results >> are reliable enough to be quoted. > > Regardless of that, it's far from clear that even if those > results were valid in 2017 that they are still valid today, > and how they relate to total power consumption, because for > all I know base stations use 10% less power for IPv6 and core > routers use 12.5% less. Warren, shall I write a draft raising > those hypotheses? > > How much power is being wasted at this moment by domestic NATs > and CGN boxes? And how much power is being wasted by this discussion? :-(