[122823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Mon Feb 22 11:39:33 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:34:01 -0500
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B829E39.6070600@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Gadi Evron wrote:
> The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's
> committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full
> legislation process of the Israeli parliament.
>
> While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use
> of their ISP's email service.
>
> According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a different
> ISP the email address will optionally be his to take along, "just like"
> mobile providers do today with phone numbers.
>
Likely result: less ISPs will offer email services as part of the
package, or will find some other way to shift responsibility to a third
party.
--Patrick
