[2432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address "portability"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 5 19:41:11 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 19:36:03 -0500
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 06:39 PM 4/5/96 -0500, Justin W. Newton wrote:
>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?
>
>
Um, and pray tell, what exactly is cisco supposed to do about this?
I'll write my congresscritter if you write yours. :-)
- paul
