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.
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