[102091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Fri Jan 25 05:58:36 2008
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:39:24 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801251047460.24403@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801251047460.24403@efes.iucc.ac.il>, Hank
Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> writes
>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.
I doubt it. The portability of Internet Addressing arises from the use
of DNS.
You wouldn't expect anyone to mandate that IMEI, rather than cellphone
number, was made portable between handsets, would you?
Making analogies between phone numbers and IP addresses has its limits.
--
Roland Perry
