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

2012-09-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <505cdd21.4080...@foobar.org>, Nick Hilliard writes: > On 21/09/2012 19:23, Tony Hain wrote: > > App developers have never wanted to be aware of the network. > > By not sitting down and thinking about the user experience of a > dual-stacked network, we have now forced them to be aware

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

2012-09-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/09/2012 19:23, Tony Hain wrote: > App developers have never wanted to be aware of the network. By not sitting down and thinking about the user experience of a dual-stacked network, we have now forced them to be aware of the network and that's not a good thing because they are as clued out ab

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

2012-09-21 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 20-Sep-12 20:51, George Herbert wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Sprunk > wrote: >> Actually, they're not any different, aside from scale. Some >> private internets have hundreds to thousands of participants, and >> they often use obscure protocols on obscure systems that were

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

2012-09-21 Thread Tony Hain
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:13 AM > To: Tony Hain > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 > > On 21/09/2012 00:47, Tony Hain wrote: &g

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

2012-09-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/09/2012 00:47, Tony Hain wrote: > You are comparing IPv6 to the historical deployment of IPv4. Get with the > times and realize that CGN/LSN breaks all those wonderful location-aware > apps people are so into now, not to mention raising the cost for operating > the network which eventually ge

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

2012-09-20 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > On 19-Sep-12 03:46, Alex Harrowell wrote: >> On the other hand, the scarcity is of *globally unique routable* >> addresses. You can make a case that private use of (non-RFC1918) IPv4 >> resources is wasteful in itself at the moment. To be pr

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

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 19-Sep-12 03:46, Alex Harrowell wrote: > On the other hand, the scarcity is of *globally unique routable* > addresses. You can make a case that private use of (non-RFC1918) IPv4 > resources is wasteful in itself at the moment. To be provocative, what > on earth is their excuse for not using IPv6

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

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 18-Sep-12 23:11, 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 assi

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tony Hain
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:37 PM > To: Tony Hain > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 > > On 20/09/2012 20:14, Tony Hain w

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

2012-09-20 Thread Randy Bush
> IPv4 is dead, and while the corpse is still wandering about, it will > collapse soon enough. No amount of bargaining or negotiation will > prevent that. Just look back to the claims in the '90s about > SNA-Forever and 'Serious Business doesn't operate on research > protocols' to see what is ahead

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

2012-09-20 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 20/09/2012 20:14, Tony Hain wrote: > Once the shift starts it will only take 5 years or so > before people start asking what all the IPv4 fuss was about. Tony, ipv4 succeeded because it was compelling enough to do so (killer apps of the time: email / news / ftp, later www instead of limited BBS

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

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <9b9685a4-cd22-41e9-957a-23103d2c8...@corp.arin.net>, John Curran wr ites: > On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:01 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: > > >> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't > >> publicly routable? > >=20 > > Because the RIRs aren't in the business of handing

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

2012-09-20 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > George Herbert wrote: > >> We could have started it at a more opportune time in the past. We could >> also have done other things like a straight IPv4-48 or IPv4-64, without the >> other protocol suite foo that's delayed IPv6 rollout. Oper

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

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 20-Sep-12 14:14, Tony Hain wrote: >> Predicting the (f)utility of starting multi-year efforts in the present for >> future benefit is self-fulfilling. > To some degree yes. In this particular case, why don't you personally go out > and tell all those people globally (that have what they consid

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tony Hain
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Maimon [mailto:jmai...@ttec.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:11 AM > To: George Herbert > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 > > ... > > Baking in bogonity

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-20 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > It works fine if the gateway has multiple routing tables (VRF or > equivalent) and application software that is multiple-routing-table > aware. If you are arguing that it is technically possible to build an environment in which every piece

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

2012-09-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:21:45 -0400, Joe Maimon said: > Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with > IPv6 deployment been working out? 60% of our traffic is IPv6 now. Working out pretty good for us. pgpcdxf9LHhzh.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2012-09-20 Thread TJ
> > Let us spin this another way. If you cannot even expect mild change such >>> as 240/4 to become prevalent enough to be useful, on what do you base >>> your >>> optimism that the much larger changes IPv6 requires will? >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> >>> Easy - Greater return on the investment; i.e. - inst

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

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Maimon
TJ wrote: Let us spin this another way. If you cannot even expect mild change such as 240/4 to become prevalent enough to be useful, on what do you base your optimism that the much larger changes IPv6 requires will? Joe Easy - Greater return on the investment; i.e. - instead of getting an I

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

2012-09-20 Thread TJ
> Let us spin this another way. If you cannot even expect mild change such > as 240/4 to become prevalent enough to be useful, on what do you base your > optimism that the much larger changes IPv6 requires will? > > Joe > > Easy - Greater return on the investment; i.e. - instead of getting an IPv4

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

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Maimon
George Herbert wrote: We could have started it at a more opportune time in the past. We could also have done other things like a straight IPv4-48 or IPv4-64, without the other protocol suite foo that's delayed IPv6 rollout. Operators could have either used larger baseball bats or more par

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

2012-09-20 Thread John Curran
On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:01 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: >> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't >> publicly routable? > > Because the RIRs aren't in the business of handing out publicly routable > address space. They're in the business of handing out globally unique > a

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

2012-09-20 Thread George Herbert
On Sep 20, 2012, at 12:21 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: > On 9/20/12 12:09 AM, George Herbert wrote: >> >> On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> >>> There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be >>> rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing >>> anyth

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From jrh...@netconsonance.com Wed Sep 19 20:47:44 2012 > Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 > nanog@nanog.org > From: Jo Rhett > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:46:54 -0700 > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > To: Robert Bonomi > > > --Apple

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

2012-09-20 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/20/12 12:09 AM, George Herbert wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing anything at all with 240/4, and given the rate of IPv6 adoption thus far, if n

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

2012-09-20 Thread George Herbert
On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be > rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing > anything at all with 240/4, and given the rate of IPv6 adoption thus > far, if not for those, it could possibly be r

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

2012-09-19 Thread Seth Mos
Op 20 sep 2012, om 07:34 heeft Mark Andrews het volgende geschreven: > > In message > > , Jimmy Hess writes: > > The work to fix this on most OS is minimal. The work to ensure > that it could be used safely over the big I Internet is enormous. > It's not so much about making sure new equipme

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

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Jimmy Hess writes: > On 9/19/12, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with > > IPv6 deployment been working out? > > "getting a single extra /4" is considered, not enough of a return > to make the change. > > I don't accept

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

2012-09-19 Thread Daniel Richards
> > There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be > rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing > anything at all with 240/4, and given the rate of IPv6 adoption thus > far, if not for those, it could possibly be reopened as unicast IPv4, > and be well-supported

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

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
>So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? Since it would require upgrading the IP stack on every host on the internet, uh, no. If you're planning to do that, you might as well make the upgrade handle IPv6. >> and no quantity of pixie dust is going to >> cause new sp

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

2012-09-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/19/12, Joe Maimon wrote: > Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with > IPv6 deployment been working out? "getting a single extra /4" is considered, not enough of a return to make the change. I don't accept that, but as far as rehabilitating 240/4, that lot

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

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
Leo Vegoda wrote: There was even a dedicated mailing list. But the drafts never made it beyond drafts, which suggests there was not a consensus in favour of an extra 18 months of IPv4 space with dubious utility value because of issues with deploy-and-forget equipment out in the wild. The

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

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <505a8828.9040...@dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes: > On 09/19/2012 15:36, Joe Maimon wrote: > > So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? > > All the experts I consulted with told me that the effort to make this > workable on the big-I Internet, not to m

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

2012-09-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/19/2012 15:36, Joe Maimon wrote: > So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? All the experts I consulted with told me that the effort to make this workable on the big-I Internet, not to mention older private networks; would be equivalent if not greater than the e

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

2012-09-19 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:50 pm, Joe Maimon wrote: […] >>> So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? >> >> 6 years of work > > What I said is that they knew they would have had at least 6 years or > _more_ to rehabilitate it, had they made a serious effort at the time

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

2012-09-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/19/12, John Osmon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> But your unconnected network, is unaffected. > Ahh... But the network may not be unconnected. Just because *you* > don't have a path to it doesn't mean others are similarly disconnected. I'm aware of

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:46:54PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > > For these networks to have gateways which connect to the outside, you > have to have an understanding of which IP networks are inside, and > which IP networks are outside. Your proxy client then forwards > connections to "outside" netwo

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:46:54 -0700, Jo Rhett said: > You're all missing the point in grand style. Given that the entire thread is based on somebody who missed the point in totally grand style and managed to get press coverage of said missing the point, I am starting to suspect that several people

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > In the financial and/or brokerage communities, there are internal networks > with enough 'high value'/sensitive information to justify "air gap" > isolation from the outide world. > > Also, in those industries, there are 'semi-isolated' networks

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: Jo Rhett > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:42:30 -0700 > Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 [[ sneck ]] > > And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't > connected to the internet through a firewall? Sk

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

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:36:08 -0400, Joe Maimon said: So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? 6 years of work What I said is that they knew they would have had at least 6 years or _more_ to rehabilitate it, had they made a seri

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

2012-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:36:08 -0400, Joe Maimon said: > So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? 6 years of work to accomplish something that would only buy us 16 /8s, which would be maybe 2 year's supply, instead of actually deploying IPv6. And at the end of the 2 ye

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

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
Doug Barton wrote: We were already looking at the IPv4 runout problems when I was at IANA in 2004. We already knew (in large part thanks to folks like Tony Hain and Geoff Huston) that we'd run out in the 2010-2012 time frame, and a lot of us pushed a lot of rocks up a lot of hills to get our

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

2012-09-19 Thread Doug Barton
Imagine that you are the DWP. You're given a block of addresses, told that they will be yours forever, plan your network accordingly, and implement your plan. Now, decades later, people are telling you that "forever" is over, and you have to totally re-address your network because you have somethi

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

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
In article <450916d8-fa1d-4d43-be8f-451d50dd6...@privaterra.org> you write: >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? Since there is no chance of either one happening, no. R's, John

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

2012-09-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 19/09/2012 22:02, David Conrad wrote: > Assuming for the sake of argument that the 51/8 is actually unused > (which it apparently isn't), the UK gov't would be under no contractual > obligation to return the address space to IANA (which is (arguably) the > allocating registry, not RIPE) -- I bel

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

2012-09-19 Thread David Conrad
Robert, On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: > 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? Assuming for the sake of argument that the 51/8 is actually unused (which it app

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

2012-09-19 Thread George Herbert
As the subsequent discussion here shows, "unused" is a press inaccuracy. The nets are in active use; much of that use is not publicly advertised, but it's still in use. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, "Robert Guerra" wrote: > Am I correct in assuming th

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

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Guerra
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

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

2012-09-19 Thread david peahi
Those who argue that IPv4 addresses must be reclaimed seem to have forgotten that even for small organizations, converting IPv4 address space to RFC1918 addresses, or IPv6, is a huge task given the fixed IP addresses of many devices (printers, copy machines, etc.), and even worse, the many key bus

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

2012-09-19 Thread Lynda
On 9/19/2012 10:52 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 9/19/12 10:42 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment management, neither have I. Plenty of people on this list have w

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

2012-09-19 Thread David Conrad
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale wrote: >> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly >> routable? >> > Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC that says so! > http://tools.ietf.or

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

2012-09-19 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't > publicly routable? > Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC that says so! http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1627 - Network 10 Considered Harmful Ford's /8 w

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

2012-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > > And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected > to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment > management, neither have I. Yes, for many years. External connections only via Application

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

2012-09-19 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/19/12 10:42 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment management, neither have I. Plenty of people on this list have worked on private internet(s) with real AS num

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

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Alex Harrowell wrote: > To be provocative, what on earth is their excuse for not using IPv6 > internally? By definition, an internal network that isn't announced to the > public Internet doesn't have to worry about happy eyeballs, broken carrier > NAT, and the like b

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

2012-09-19 Thread Arturo Servin
There is something that I think they call DNS. It may help. :) .as On 19 Sep 2012, at 02:27, Mike Hale wrote: > You know what sucks worse than NAT? > > Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;)

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

2012-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:24 AM, John Osmon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else >> starts routing your assignment... "legitimately" or not, RIR allocation >> transferred to them, or not. >> >> There migh

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

2012-09-19 Thread Seth Mos
Op 19-9-2012 14:35, Leo Bicknell schreef: In a message written on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:11:50PM -0700, Mike Hale wrote: 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? There's

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

2012-09-19 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else > starts routing your assignment... "legitimately" or not, RIR allocation > transferred to them, or not. > > There might be a record created in a database, and/or internet ro

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

2012-09-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:11:50PM -0700, Mike Hale wrote: > 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? While I personally think ARIN should do more t

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

2012-09-19 Thread Tim Franklin
> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't > publicly routable? Because the RIRs aren't in the business of handing out publicly routable address space. They're in the business of handing out globally unique address space - *one* of the reasons for which may be connecti

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

2012-09-19 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 19/09/12 08:04, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale wrote: "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does

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

2012-09-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
eyeronic.des...@gmail.com (Mike Hale) wrote: > You know what sucks worse than NAT? > Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;) I agree. But we'll have to live with it until something better comes along. > The assumption behind my original question is that the IP space simply > isn't used anywhere near a

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

2012-09-19 Thread goemon
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale wrote: "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans."

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

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , goe...@anime.ne t writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , 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 th

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:40 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: > Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's no > reason we can't use them. > > Problem solved! Dude, seriously. Just because they aren't in *YOUR* routing table doesn't mean that they aren't in hundreds of oth

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

2012-09-18 Thread goemon
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , 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 com

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

2012-09-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , 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 the

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
You know what sucks worse than NAT? Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;) To everyone: Thanks for the clarifications. I don't necessarily agree with some of the arguments...but since I'm not fortunate enough to be in possession of a /8, that agreement (or lack thereof) is worth the electrons this em

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/18/12, Mike Hale wrote: > I can accept the legal argument (and I'm assuming that, in the > original contracts for IP space, there wasn't a clause that allowed > Internic or its successor to reclaim space). Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else starts routing your assi

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't > publicly routable? Because you have private connectivity with other companies and you need guaranteed unique IP space. No, really, you can't implement NAT for every possible scen

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

2012-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
> "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 gener

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , M ike Hale writes: > So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't > publicly routable? Route announcements can be scoped. See NO-EXPORT. Just because _you_ can't see the announcement doesn't mean others can't see the announcement along with the rest of the pu

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly routable? Maybe I'm being dense here, but I'm truly puzzled by this (other than the "this is how our network works and we're not changing it" argument). I can accept the legal argument (and I'm assuming that, in the origi

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , M ike Hale writes: > "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 assigne

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > 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? Here's one: there's little to no legal basis for such reclamation so any such

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

2012-09-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 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

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

2012-09-18 Thread Matthew Kaufman
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

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
"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? On

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

2012-09-18 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 9/18/2012 9:05 PM, Blair Trosper wrote: Not to mention Ford Motor Company has 19.0.0.0/8, and there are no announcements for it whatsoever. There are other /8s like it...lots of them early allocations. Why ARIN doesn't revoke them is frankly baffling to me. ARIN didn't assign them, so why

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

2012-09-18 Thread Blair Trosper
Not to mention Ford Motor Company has 19.0.0.0/8, and there are no announcements for it whatsoever. There are other /8s like it...lots of them early allocations. Why ARIN doesn't revoke them is frankly baffling to me. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > When IPv4 exhaustion

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

2012-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
> When IPv4 exhaustion pain reaches a sufficiently high level of pain; > there is a significant chance people who will be convinced that any > use of IPv4 which does not involve announcing and routing the address > space on the internet is a "Non-Use" of IPv4 addresses, > > and that that particu

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/18/12, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Some people have to learn that not every address is only used on the > Internet. According to the above there will be large swaths of IPv4 left > at various large organizations who have /8's as "they are not announced" > or as the article states it "as there is

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

2012-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
> more over, who cares? a /8 is less than 2 months rundown globally... > and, once upon a time I constructed on this list a usecase for apple's > /8 ... it's really not THAT hard to use a /8, it's well within the > capabilities of a gov't to do so... especially given they PROBABLY > have: > o unc

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

2012-09-18 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:29 PM, John R. Levine wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, james jones wrote: > >> Are we still talking about this? I setup a lan at home once at that used >> 6/8 :) > > > They have nuclear weapons, too. Just saying. Which, the Army? I don't believe that's true anymore. I th

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

2012-09-18 Thread John R. Levine
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, james jones wrote: Are we still talking about this? I setup a lan at home once at that used 6/8 :) They have nuclear weapons, too. Just saying. R's, John On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, John Levine wrote:

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

2012-09-18 Thread james jones
Are we still talking about this? I setup a lan at home once at that used 6/8 :) On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, John Levine wrote: > >>And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these > addresses. > > > > MIT is prob

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

2012-09-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, John Levine wrote: >>And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these addresses. > > MIT is probably using less of their /8 than MOD is, and as far as I > know, MIT has neither commando forces nor nuclear weapons. > > You might want to pick, so to

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

2012-09-18 Thread John Levine
>And someone should further alert him that they do not "own" these addresses. MIT is probably using less of their /8 than MOD is, and as far as I know, MIT has neither commando forces nor nuclear weapons. You might want to pick, so to speak, your battles more carefully. R's, John

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

2012-09-18 Thread Alex Rubenstein
> The only slight snag in his argument is that the addresses are not unused. > Not announced != Not used. And for the definitive answer on this block, the official response is: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet_protocol_ipv4_address_a and http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/internet

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

2012-09-18 Thread Alex Brooks
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Paul Thornton wrote: > On 18/09/2012 15:07, 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 Mi

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

2012-09-18 Thread Bacon Zombie
Well 172.0.0.0 to 172.15.255.255 is now owned by AT&T and they have live systems on some of them already. On 18 September 2012 17:39, George Herbert wrote: > > I'm having problems finding any announcements for this net 10/8, too. Can > someone talk to these "IANA" folks about reclaiming it, too

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

2012-09-18 Thread Seth Mos
Op 18 sep 2012, om 18:39 heeft George Herbert het volgende geschreven: > > I'm having problems finding any announcements for this net 10/8, too. Can > someone talk to these "IANA" folks about reclaiming it, too? They have a > bunch of other space in 172.x they should be able to use... Don't

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

2012-09-18 Thread George Herbert
I'm having problems finding any announcements for this net 10/8, too. Can someone talk to these "IANA" folks about reclaiming it, too? They have a bunch of other space in 172.x they should be able to use... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:36 AM, "John Levine

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

2012-09-18 Thread John Levine
>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. Please, don't anyone tell him about 25/8.

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

2012-09-18 Thread Alex Brooks
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Paul Thornton wrote: > > On 18/09/2012 15:07, 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

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

2012-09-18 Thread Tim Chown
On 18 Sep 2012, at 15:32, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 >> Addresses > > "unused"? sez who? Oh, it said it on the internet so it must be true. > > Other than that, I'm totally fai

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

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 > > Addresses > > "unused"? sez who? Oh, it said it on the internet so it must be true. > > Other than that,

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

2012-09-18 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 > Addresses "unused"? sez who? Oh, it said it on the internet so it must be true. Other than that, I'm totally failing to see what's newsworthy about who or what happens to ho

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