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Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Sep 19 00:17:19 2012

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:16:49 -0700
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAN3um4zGsbRL9K2snL0N6qDgP7RU_4dw_z1F0RQ3bnbr1H8eDA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 9/18/2012 9:11 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
> "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world.  luckily, the
>   disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans."
>
> I'd love to hear the reasoning for this.  Why would it be bad policy
> to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them
> back to the general pool?

Haven't these two (UK) agencies already said that they *are* using the 
resources that are assigned? They just don't happen to be advertised to 
the Internet *you* are connected to, apparently.

Matthew Kaufman



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