Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Randy Carpenter
Top Quality ? Are they aged longer in special barrels? Polished extra nicely? (Ouch, I think I injured my eyes from the rolling) thanks, -Randy - On Mar 13, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Alec Muffett alec.muff...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I'm odd, but I find the novelty of this to be amusing:

Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Alec Muffett
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

Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
unrouted addresses I expect What with their CTO declaring no need for IPv6 last June I do wonder if the Government is in the driving seat of its network policy. It'll be a'rolling in the aisles when HMG wakes up to find they've flogged their v4 and can't deploy v6 and are to be stuck behind

Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Ca By
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:30 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:46:31 -, Alec Muffett said: 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 top quality?

Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:46:31 -, Alec Muffett said: 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 top quality? Well... Yeah. They've probably had no chance to end up in any reputation

Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Alec Muffett
Colour me surprised that so many people are talking about the marketing schtick (or: woe betide the seller for unspecified reasons) - and not the opportunity... but so be it. Digging around on the web I've found: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/09/the-uk-has-entire-unused-ipv4-8-that-is.html ...which

Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work Pensions) selling off an entire /8

2015-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:30 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:46:31 -, Alec Muffett said: 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 top quality? Graded by