[2434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address "portability"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Smith)
Fri Apr 5 20:07:38 1996
From: Andrew Smith <awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com>
To: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:03:29 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604052032.MAA01875@scruz.net> from "Matthew Kaufman" at Apr 5, 96 12:32:57 pm
> 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
Sure...people dial phone numbers...on the Internet, people access
services on hostnames...apples and oranges...
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