[7346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "portability" of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Fri Jan 31 14:10:58 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:53:39 -0500 (EST)
From: David Schwartz <davids@wiznet.net>
To: Lee Howard <spiff@access.digex.net>
Cc: Eric Sobocinski <sobo@merit.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.970131132230.571B-100000@access3.digex.net>
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Lee Howard wrote:
> ISP A can regulate IP addresses allocated, yes, but it can only
> regulate internal policy. I would think ISP A's position for regulating
> address announcement would be particularly weak if assignment had been
> publicly made to a customer, such as with SWIP.
Since ISPs are _required_ to SWIP, you can't assume that a SWIP
means anything except that the ISP that SWIPped it wants a registry to
know those IPs are in use by a customer, especially in address space
that is marked non-portable.
DS
