[72041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Tue Jun 29 07:08:59 2004
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:08:18 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.91.0.1088498584.bygg@nic.cafax.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Regardless, this is not a telephony issue ("Can I take my cell
>>number with me?"), as the courts as seem disposed to diagnose
>>these days, but rather, a technical one insofar as the IP routing
>>table efficiency.
>
>
> No, this is not about taking a phone number. This is about a someone
> moving to a new apartment in a different part of town, and asking the
> court to force the owner of the old house to reassign the old street
> address to him.
All the places I have ever been, the address was assigned by somebody
other than the building owner, ususally as a product of legislative
action. A court order can not require the paramedics from New York to
respond to a call now from Juneau.
