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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by nwh on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:50AM (#6131981)
I'd rather just see the massive corporate reservations returned.

Why does Xerox need an entire A block, why do Apple, BMW?

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by ctrl_freak on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:20AM (#6132061)
> Why does Xerox need an entire A block, why do Apple, BMW?

They don't, but retroactively taking away their /8s would be extremely complicated and expensive for them, not to mention that there is very little benefit from prolonging exhaustion by perhaps 1-2 years at most.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by nwh on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:46AM (#6132098)
They could buy the ranges back if they really desired. The results from the Carna botnet show just how sparse the usage of the allocated ranges is. It's practically empty for the entire left upper quadrant.

http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images/hilbert_icmp_...

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by wmf on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:06AM (#6132148)
A lot of IP addresses are used but not visible from the public Internet.
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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by nwh on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:16AM (#6132318)
Oh I realise, I just have a hard time believing that Ford even has a tiny portion of their block allocated to anything.
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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by rjsw on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:37AM (#6132359)
Ford has multiple design centres in different countries plus a lot of subcontractors who may need to connect to stuff from outside.

I can believe that they are using a large part of an /8.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by devcpp on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @05:42AM (#6132671)
And normal people and smaller companies need their addresses even more.
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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by wmf on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:17PM (#6134832)
Then they can bid for them.
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