[156488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Sep 18 22:29:14 2012
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:28:35 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZm6CDgxE-rcXV5sxvbLAnG4usquafJ7zGTA=EOM2-NAA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> 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.
but we are sooooo expert at minding other people's business
randy