[2422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address "portability"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Apr 5 17:50:45 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:36:41 +0800
From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
To: kozowski@structured.net, matthew@scruz.net, roll@stupi.se
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
>>From: Peter Lothberg <roll@stupi.se>
>> Give me a call when you convinced the phone_company to make my phone number
>> work in California.
>The California PUC has approved local phone competition within California,
>with the requirement the phone number portability (between carriers) be
>fully implemented as soon as possible. Making your phone number stay the
>same no matter whether you're a PacBell or MFS or TCI customer is exactly
>the same problem as making IP addresses portable... just wait until ISPs
>are regulated, and they get the same mandate.
>-matthew kaufman
> matthew@scruz.net
Which only shows how stupid American elected representatives are.
(No, i do not think they are any smarter in any other country).
--vadim
