[96708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OK - functioning administration of 44.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon May 21 20:33:06 2007
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:32:15 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Any reason it hasn't migrated over to IPv6 and 44/8 returned to the
> free pool?
Old software, efficiency (lots of the embedded low power
hardware), no need to as 44. is all the space needed. Lots
of other reasons I don't know
When it started it was quite advanced, it was pretty much the only IP
in the UK in the mid 80s. For some ISPs UK dial up Internet access
started out using software developed for ampr
Google and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q
have more details for those wondering.
brandon
