<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear Nishal,</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I strongly disagree with you.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Getting 10 shinny crisp 100 $ bills should not render the 5 used 50 $ bills in one's pocket useless. If this happens that means the holder did not really value the 50 $ bills in the first place. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Keep in mind, it's Sir Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity (from the 1600s) that we still use to put satellites in orbit (flawed as they may be). Not Einstein’s new super cool bombastic theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Great as they may be, the old stuff still works great.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Although IPV6 has clear advantages over IPV4, this does not negate the fact that IPV4 is still useful. Much as we all wish everyone would migrate to IPV6, IPV4 is still with us for the foreseeable future.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">As such, it is the responsibility of the entire AFRINIC community to ensure that the available IPV4 resources are not wasted, abused or undermined, but instead protected and used to slingshot Africa to new heights of technology adoption.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Daniel</span></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 25, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <<a href="mailto:nishal@controlfreak.co.za" class="">nishal@controlfreak.co.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 25 May 2020, at 3:28, Arnaud AMELINA wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[snip rhetoric]<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is something here for the community to learn about.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">yes! spend your energy on migrating to ipv6.<br class="">help devalue, and make irrelevant, the ipv4 market.<br class=""><br class="">anything else is not a sustainable way forward.<br class=""><br class="">-n.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">RPD mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" class="">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>