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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by mikeash on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:01PM (#7786508)
Ford has an entire /8, a significant chunk of the entire address space. Ford does not have as much reason to need that much address space compared to, say, major ISPs.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by rjsw on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:36PM (#7786722)
I would argue that Ford (and the other multinationals) have more need of an /8 than any university that is just in a single city.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by hrrsn on Thursday May 22, 2014 @07:12PM (#7787136)
A /8 is 16,777,216 addresses.

Ford has 181,000 employees as of 2013 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company).

That's very roughly 92 publicly routable IP addresses per employee.

I highly doubt they need that many.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by icefox on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:58PM (#7787497)
What about 1 per car?
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by mikeash on Thursday May 22, 2014 @10:13PM (#7787680)
In practice, I imagine they'd outsource the internet connectivity bit to cellular carriers (as is the case for OnStar and similar at the moment) and those companies would be the ones to worry about provisioning IP addresses.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by blueskin_ on Friday May 23, 2014 @09:23AM (#7789193)
This, plus the IPs mobile networks use are all heavily NATed anyway.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by hrrsn on Friday May 23, 2014 @07:00PM (#7791845)
Perfect use case for IPv6 anyway.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by mikeash on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:39PM (#7787608)
I would agree, and say that universities with an entire /8 probably shouldn't have them anymore either. That's a case where it definitely made sense early on, but stopped making sense quite a while ago.
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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by justincormack on Friday May 23, 2014 @05:25AM (#7788578)
Imperial College had two as the computer science department had its own /8. Probably still does.
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