[156480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james jones)
Tue Sep 18 19:24:16 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZm6CDgxE-rcXV5sxvbLAnG4usquafJ7zGTA=EOM2-NAA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:23:44 -0400
From: james jones <james@freedomnet.co.nz>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, alex@corp.nac.net, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Are we still talking about this? I setup a lan at home once at that used
6/8 :)
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> >>And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these
> addresses.
> >
> > MIT is probably using less of their /8 than MOD is, and as far as I
> > know, MIT has neither commando forces nor nuclear weapons.
> >
> > You might want to pick, so to speak, your battles more carefully.
>
> more over, who cares? a /8 is less than 2 months rundown globally...
> and, once upon a time I constructed on this list a usecase for apple's
> /8 ... it's really not THAT hard to use a /8, it's well within the
> capabilities of a gov't to do so... especially given they PROBABLY
> have:
> o unclassified networks
> o secret networks
> o top secret networks
> o other networks
>
> I'm sure there's plenty of ways they could use the space in question.
>
>
