EU Official: IP Is Personal
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri Jan 25 10:39:24 UTC 2008
In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801251047460.24403 at efes.iucc.ac.il>, Hank
Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il> writes
>I wouldn't be suprised if in a few years some EU/US law mandates IP
>number portability, just like people have with their cellphones.
I doubt it. The portability of Internet Addressing arises from the use
of DNS.
You wouldn't expect anyone to mandate that IMEI, rather than cellphone
number, was made portable between handsets, would you?
Making analogies between phone numbers and IP addresses has its limits.
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Roland Perry
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