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

[Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>]

Since all NSP's, ISP's, ALEC's, BLEC's and CLEC's
adhere to this accepted behavior and there are more
than 100 I blieve the court would be on the side of
the plaintiff under the 3rd amendment of the
constitution.

It is my understanding that doing otherwise will cause
an administrative nightmare and harm to the standard
numbering system across vast segments of the industry
and would create greater security risks than at
present. It would cause enconomic harm to software
writen specifically towards the current system and
force redistribution of software and or fixes that
could be disruptive for months on end.

Worse case scenario. I think this is a bad precedent,
and poor judgement on the part of the defendent ISP,
for the small number block they have. The long term
potential harm could result in small ISP's not being
able to get number blocks thus making it more
difficult
for small companies to gain better backbone access,
from their Tier 1 host counterparts and could trigger
a potentional shakeout in the industry.

Have A nice day...

-Henry




--- "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>
wrote:
> Can we stop the analogies before they begin.
>
> This is not the PSTN, comparing it to the PSTN
> appears to be where the court is 
> going wrong. This is the Internet.
>
> It is internationally accepted policy that IP space
> is issued under a kind of 
> license that does not give ownership or
> transferability. It is also part of the 
> fundemental operation of the Internet that address
> space remains aggregated and 
> that customers borrow space from the provider and if
> they move they get given 
> new address space by the new provider. This is
> agreed by IANA, the RIRs, the 
> ISPs. 
>
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
>
> > "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --Johnny