On 15/09/14 16:25, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
Reentrant wrote:

Will the Scots will have an identifiable range of IP addresses?

No country has an identifiable range of addresses. Addresses are dished
out by regional registries, RIPE in Europe's case. And they are dished
out to any entity that makes a proper case for needing them. And you
can then look up in the RIPE database to determine that such-and-such
an IP address was issued as part of a block, to BT, f'rinstance, or
Virgin Media.

Trouble is that in the early days when 32 bits was thought to be plenty
for an address, whole 24-bit (16 million addresses) long ranges were
issued to the likes of Apple, IBM, HP, you name it. That was before the
registries were properly established. There are plenty of blocks where
no one quite knows who's using them.

Not true if they are ON the internet.

Pretty easy to trace who they end up with.


The registries around the world are now using up their last free blocks
of addresses, and then that will be that for IPv4. We'll all be needing
to move to IPv6 then.

Entities in Scotland will need to apply to RIPE for blocks of addresses
just like anyone else, if there are any, and that will show up in the
RIPE database.



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