[1048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing wars pending?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noel Chiappa)
Wed Nov 15 23:55:06 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 23:48:24 -0500
From: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: alan@gi.net, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: big-internet@munnari.oz.au, jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
What are the correlations and contrasts between our current
backbone routing problems (wrt space and # of routes) and the FCC
decision several years ago to make 1-800 numbers portable.
Well, the 800 number problem was a little easier, since phone numbers are
variable length, and the 800 number database maps the numbers into another
phone number, which may be a 13-digit carrier-id+phone-number combo...
They say get stuffed, and get a congress person to propose a bill that all
IP numbers are portable. This bill passes. It could happen. Any thoughts?
Exactly which court do they go to to get this enforced on non-US parts of the
Internet?
Noel
