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Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Fri Mar 13 14:47:15 2015
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From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:46:31 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Perhaps I'm odd, but I find the novelty of this to be amusing:
IPv4 Market Group Announces the Availability of a Significant Portfolio of
> IPv4 Addresses for Purchase in the RIPE Region:
>
> IPv4 Market Group, a global leader in IPv4 sales, has just announced the
> availability of up to 2.6 million top quality IPv4 addresses for purchase
> in the RIPE region. The firm=E2=80=99s Executive Vice President for Busin=
ess
> Development, Jeff Mehlenbacher, said that the IPv4 blocks are being offer=
ed
> in multiples of /16, with up to 7 contiguous /16=E2=80=99s and 40 /16=E2=
=80=99s in total
> IPs.
...deletia...
http://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-addresses-ripe-region/
It's related to this blogpost:
https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/02/19/freeing-up-unused-ip-ad=
dresses/
...and I gather that perhaps - although it's currently being marketed as a
bunch of /16s - they might also entertain the possibility of selling it as
an entire /8 for a reasonable price.
I'm wondering: have we passed the point of peak IPv4 scarcity? Is selling
an entire /8 still a viable proposition? Apparently UK Gov may have more
than one...
- alec
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