[102045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lou Katz)
Wed Jan 23 19:57:42 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:44:55 -0800
From: Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:52:41PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >If IP addresses don't identify anything, why do they collect and keep
> >them?
>
> In the US, folks are fighting the RIAA claiming that an IP address isn't
> enough to identify a person.
>
> In Europe, folks are fighting the Google claiming that an IP address is
> enough to identify a person.
>
> I guess it depends on which side of the pond you are on.
>
They are both right. If you have a dynamic IP such as most college students
have, it is here-today-gone-tomorrow.
If you have static IP (business, us slugs in the Swamp, etc) you are identifyable.
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