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Re: Address "portability"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Fri Apr 5 18:40:59 1996

Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 18:39:58 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>

At 12:32 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

>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.

Uhm, Cisco, you hear that?


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