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

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

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 <morrowc.lists () gmail com
> > wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> 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 speak, your battles more carefully.
> >
> > 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 unclassified networks
> >   o secret networks
> >   o top secret networks
> >   o other networks
> >
> > I'm sure there's plenty of ways they could use the space in question.