[156437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Brooks)
Tue Sep 18 11:09:41 2012
In-Reply-To: <50588289.4090904@prt.org>
From: Alex Brooks <askoorb+nanog@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:06:02 +0100
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org> wrote:
>
> On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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>>
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>> http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses
>>
>> Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused
>> IPv4
>> Addresses
>
>
> The only slight snag in his argument is that the addresses are not unused.
> Not announced != Not used.
>
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Secure_Intranet for
details on HM Government's Intranet, if you are so inclined. It is
currently being transformed into the "Public Services Network":
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/public-services-network.
Alex
