RE: my finance department cares deeply about 2%

[nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

fun fact I forgot to mention: if you use ipv6 on cellphone connections, your site loads more than 2% faster and uses 
less than 98% as much electricity, due to avoiding the expensive and computation-hungry NAT process itself, as well as 
not needing to be physically routed to that big centralised server and back. So if you care about 2%, you'll use IPv6.


On 6 November 2025 18:52:07 CET, nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> So you use header compression on all your links, right? No sense reducing your 1Gbps main uplink to 0.98Gbps. The 
> checksum (removed in v6)  is already 5% of each IP packet header. Speaking of headers I take it you're using SLIP 
> instead of Ethernet? And you avoid TLS like the plague? I hope you replaced your 15W LED bulbs with 14.7W bulbs as 
> well - your finance department will thank you. This is asinine.
>
>
> On 6 November 2025 13:11:16 CET, Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > Tell any financial department that 2% does not matter
> > and see the reaction.
> > Ed/
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marco Moock via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2025 14:53
> > To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog () lists nanog org>
> > Cc: Marco Moock <mm () dorfdsl de>
> > Subject: Re: Artificial Juniper SRX limitations preventing IPv6 deployment (and sales)
> >
> > On 06.11.2025 07:12 Vasilenko Eduard wrote:
> >
> > > The issue that 128bits (64+64) are wasted in every packet. Formally, 
> > > for "privacy". Content providers are lathing from such form or 
> > > privacy. But it is 2% of the internet capacity.
> >
> > No one cares nowadays. The amount of other crap traffic (scrapers, AI, spam, DDoS attacks) is a real problem, the 
> > additional bits in the header aren't.
> > The time of slow dialup connections where every bit matters, is over.
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