[102086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Fri Jan 25 04:05:30 2008
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:49:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <11267.1201243808@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:33:20 PST, Owen DeLong said:
>
>>> And oddly enough, license plates on cars act *exactly the same way* - but
>>> nobody seems at all surprised when police can work backwards from a plate
>>> and come up with a suspect (who, admittedly, may not have been
>>> involved if
>>> the car was borrowed/stolen/etc).
>>>
>> In order to be using the license plate, you had to be physically
>> present in the car.
>
> "It wasn't me at the hit-and-run, my car was stolen last night"
>
> "It wasn't me, my PC got zombied"
>
> Like I said, they work *exactly the same way*.
>
> But I'm giving up. We've got people here who work for companies that have
> business models that boil down to "given an IP address, figure out who to
> bill" - but although it identifies a person well enough to send them an
> invoice, they think it isn't enough to identify them.
I wouldn't be suprised if in a few years some EU/US law mandates IP number
portability, just like people have with their cellphones. Imagine what
that will do to the routing tables. How many /32s can we get into the
RIBs these days? :-)
-Hank
