[Gllug] IPv6 and firewalls

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:29:18AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> The issue is not that nobody will be able to obtain an IPv4 address at
> any time soon but rather than large allocations will no longer be
> available within a couple of years. This may well give rise to a new
> market in secondary allocations of IP address space in the short to
> medium term rather than widespread adoption of IPv6.

I was a RIPE LIR for a time and got 212.57.32.0 - 212.57.63.255
(potentially 8192 IP addresses).  That was around 2000/2001.

Just checking now, and:

(a) That space is hardly being used, only 32.x - 34.x and even those
very sparsely.

(b) It's registered to a company that no longer exists at an
address that the company hasn't resided at for 5 years.

(c) It's registered to a person who hasn't worked for that defunct
company for longer than 5 years.

I hope this is not generally applicable to RIPE allocations.

Rich.
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Richard Jones
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