[122935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Feb 23 14:57:14 2010
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:56:02 +0100
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.91.0.1266914400.bygg@nic.cafax.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
>> Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter
>> changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally
>> his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients.
>
> No, a complete street address portability system.
street addresses aren't so discrete that everyone doesn't handle them
slightly differently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography)
And over course if you want to totally overhual the way you do things
you can just build your method as a hostile overlay on another system,
there's a long and proud tradition of doing so.
> Assuming that I live on 1337 Main Street, I should be able to keep that
> address even if I move to a different part of town, and I should be able
> to use it for all purposes, including when I give my home address to a
> cab driver, and it should just work. Why can't we get some reasonable
> legislation like that enacted?
>
> --Johnny
>
