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

[dave () farber net]

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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie () TransSys COM>
To: dave () farber net
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:39:04 -0400
Subj: Re: [IP] Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)


It's "IP addresses", not "IPs".  IP is an acronym for "Internet Protocol"
(or occasionally, "Interesting People" :-) and the plural form doesn't
refer to addresses.  It's very likely slang that evolved from people
struggling though manual configuration steps where you had to enter
default router, your address and perhaps other "IP address".   Today,
we have technology like BOOTP, DHCP and the PPP IPCP protocol that
convey this information automatically.

It's probably just tilting at windmills to attempt to correct this
slang that's entered popular use, but what the heck.  It just makes
some of us Internet old-timers cringe a little bit..

Louis Mamakos


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