On 07.11.2025 06:18 Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote: > For example, encryption cost is high, but there is a motivation that > many people would accept (and create the pressure on the financial > department to tolerate it).
Wrong, encryption is a rather small task comparing to other processes, like JavaScript in the browser on bloated websites. > For the case of half IPv6 address bits wastage, it was initially "OSI > layer violation to put MAC inside IP address just because some IPX > politicians have big enough weight" that was later replaces by > "randomize IP address to make more difficult to guess it or scan". > Number of people who would support this madness would be very small - > OTTs have hundreds of ways to de-anonymize users. Hence, it is just a > wastage of 2% of Internet for nothing. And no one cares about that waste. The time of saving every bit is over for a long time. Otherwise bloated operating systems, huge computer games or websites with megabytes of data for nothing would not exist. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/H675U3KSEHHI5VJ2C6HXNMDV6TBYM5ZN/
