[92193] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sat Sep 9 13:43:36 2006
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:42:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: tony.li@tony.li
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000601c6d370$cc1369a0$697d14ac@tropos.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Tony Li wrote:
And the same way that government forced telephone number portability, I
foresee one day government requiring IP number portability among ISPs in
order to increase competition. So all those SWIPS and PA assignments in
ARIN/RIPE/APNIc may one day be used to allow Acme Nail with their /29
assignment to leave ISP A and move to ISP B. Legislators have been known
to make more idiotic laws and regulations so don't think it couldn't
happen.
-Hank Nussbacher
http://www.interall.co.il
> Another somewhat important point is that we also need to conserve
> routing entries. If you make a market for addresses without regard to
> routability, you risk creating a situation where you flood the world
> with /32's. No thanks.
>
> Tony
