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MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be)

Posted by msmash on from the hmm dept.

An anonymous reader shares: MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8. That's a very big block of scarce IPv4 addresses that have become available again. One block inside this /8, more specifically 18.145.0.0/16, was transferred to Amazon.

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  1. Re:RTFA by tempest69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because IPv4 addresses are valuable ($10 range currently) Having 16.7 Million of them is a nice chunk of change, letting 65K of them go for free seems to be a breach of fiduciary responsibility by someone.

  2. Not the only interesting assigment by rickb928 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ford still seems to own 19...

    Halliburton, Eli Lilly, U Michigan, Prudential, Merck are some of the more notable assignees.

    Some of these must be subnetted and farmed out, but IPv4 is destined for obscurity, so why bother?

    Still, reading RFCs and seeing Jon Postel's name makes me want to tear up. Miss him.

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    deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.