From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2026 9:02 PM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>; Serge Droz <serge.droz@first.org>; denis walker <ripedenis@gmail.com>; security-wg@ripe.net <security-wg@ripe.net>; Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
Subject: Re: [Security-wg] Abuse mailboxes are increasingly no longer monitored and are being replaced by (bad) forms
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 01:10:25PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Right now a common argument is ???IPv4 is done with, IPv6 has so much space, even if bad actors corner large chunks of it, there???s still unlimited space left???.
>
> We will probably, with 20/20 hindsight, realize that this argument will go the way of that apocryphal Bill Gates quote about 640k should be enough for anybody.
We can do math.
Gert Doering
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