[92195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Sat Sep 9 17:07:29 2006
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:06:24 -0500
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609092037590.3764@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hank Nussbacher 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.
Customers already have portability. It's called DNS.
IP addresses aren't published in the big web rolodexes. They don't need
their IP address to stay with them.
pt
