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

Tue Jun 29 11:08:18 UTC 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.

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.