Am I correct in assuming that the unused IP block would not be sold as
is mentioned in the article, but instead be returned to RIPE to be
reallocated?
Robert
On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:07, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses
Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million
Unused IPv4
Addresses
Written by Ravi Mandalia
Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million
Unused IPv4
Addresses
The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire block of '/8'
IPv4
addresses that is unused and an e-petition has been filed in this
regards
asking the DWP to sell it off thus easing off the RIPE IPv4 address
space
scarcity a little.
John Graham-Cumming, who found this unused block, wrote in a blog post
that
the DWP was in possession of 51.0.0.0/8 IPv4 addresses. According to
Cumming,
these 16.9 million IP addresses are unused at the moment and he
derived this
conclusion by doing a check in the ASN database. “A check of the ASN
database
will show that there are no networks for that block of addresses,”
he wrote.
An e-petition has been filed in this regards. “It has recently come
to light
that the Department for Work and Pensions has its own allocated block
of
16,777,216 addresses (commonly referred to as a /8), covering 51.0.0.0
to
51.255.255.255”, reads the petition.
The UK government, if it sells off this /8 block, could end up getting
£1
billion mark. “£1 billion of low-effort extra cash would be a very
nice thing
to throw at our deficit,” read the petition.
Cumming ends his post with the remark, “So, Mr. Cameron, I'll accept
a 10%
finder's fee if you dispose of this asset :-)”.
