Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

["Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

Johnny Eriksson wrote:

> "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
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> 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.