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Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Mon Jun 28 23:36:31 2004

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:33:47 GMT
To: alex@nac.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



Of course, this is only possible with NAT at the customer edge.

Otherwise, it expands the size of the global routing system
exponentially.

- ferg

-- Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:


As you can see, this TRO has widespread effects, and is something that
everyone in the industry could be affected by. If this precedent is set,
you will soon have everyone acting as if IP's are property, and
something that they are entitled to. I ask for input from everyone in
the community on this. We don't think we're crazy, but want to make
sure.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or
 fergdawg@sbcglobal.net


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