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UK sells unused IPv4
funyuns_are_awesome
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The surplus addresses are part of a much bigger block of 16 million addresses given to the Department of Work and Pensions in 1993.
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There goes my theory I'd be given an IP address in lieu of a pension come retirement...
By the time you retire, IPv4 addresses will be worthless, and nobody will know what you are talking about.
IPv8 addresses will be in common use when you retire, because the United Federation of Planets ran out of IPv6 addresses. Everyone had wasted huge numbers of /64s ;-)
Interesting the BBC got the name of the Department wrong, it is for not of.
Well on the upside - the UK government isn't going to do anything with IPv6 until it's got maximum cash for the IPv4 its hoarding. If they've started selling it off we might be nearly at the point where they think about possibly looking into IPv6 for gov.uk infrastructure...