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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Wed Sep 19 02:41:22 2012

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1A05B0E5-0269-4C14-9B30-5E424B990237@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com> 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?
> Many of them _ARE_ using them, just not using them directly on the public
> internet. There is nothing wrong with that.
>
> As others have said... !announced != !used.

Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's 
no reason we can't use them.

Problem solved!

-Dan


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