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UK Selling Off Unused IPv4 Addresses

posted by martyb on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the addresses-are-where-it's-at dept.

n1 writes with news of a report from the BBC:

The UK government has started selling off internet addresses that it no longer uses.

The first group of 150,000 addresses has been snapped up by a Norwegian firm called Altibox for about £600,000.

[...]The surplus addresses are part of a much bigger block of 16 million addresses given to the Department of Work and Pensions in 1993. Earlier this year, the DWP started a project to see how many of these IP addresses could be freed.

An official report produced before the DWP began its investigation suggested that 70% of the massive block was used for the UK government's internal network, leaving about five million free for disposal.

What are the chances the government will end up leasing some back from the companies they are selling them to?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:40AM (#187107)

    Twenty years of failed deployment should be enough failure for any failed project.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:16AM (#187113)

    Twenty years of failed deployment should be enough failure for any failed project.

    In other news, failure to switch to a failed IPv4 replacement has been a huge success. Going forward, we simply need to secure the failure / success dichotomy with a backwards compatible and interoperable extension to the existing IPv4 address space.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:52AM (#187116)

      Going backward, all those wasted years spent implementing dual-stack IPv6 networking stacks are years we'll never ever get back again.