Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Tue Jun 29 10:03:02 UTC 2004
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 at 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
>
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