[122903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Feb 23 05:11:16 2010
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:10:33 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <46BD99F7-F3D5-41AC-9AF6-FE29247AEAAB@hopcount.ca>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/22/10 7:28 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 2010-02-22, at 10:09, Gadi Evron wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of their ISP's email service.
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> Just out of interest, are those ISP-tied e-mail addresses always run by the ISP, or are they occasionally outsourced in the manner of Rogers' (Canada) or BT's (UK) respective deals with Yahoo! (US)?
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> It'd be an interesting twist if contracts between e-mail providers outside Israel and ISPs inside suddenly made this requirement for e-mail address portability leak beyond Israel's borders.
It's an interesting question, I'm afraid I don't have the answer.
Gadi.
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> Joe
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