[156459] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Sep 18 16:11:54 2012
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Alex Brooks <askoorb+nanog@gmail.com>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:11:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CALKLF09HhPXE4oTqXzVBb=vw0N5+8Ft_Oef00s0vuYQ69TJJFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The only slight snag in his argument is that the addresses are not unused=
.
> Not announced !=3D Not used.
And for the definitive answer on this block, the official response is:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet_protocol_ipv4_address_a and
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet_protocol_ipv4_address_a_2
This is astounding. Are we really to believe that the UK Defense folks are =
using 60% of a /8 - about 10,066,000 addresses?
Even if every sub-allocation within that 60% were only 50% utilized, that w=
ould be over 5,000,000 addresses.
Internally Allocated !=3D used
And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these addresses=
.
