28 Jul
2009
28 Jul
'09
2:50 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:30:41AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:29:19PM +0200, Per Heldal wrote:
Market regulators (national and international) should define the requirements and make it mandatory for ISPs to ease the transition from an address-block to another, prevent DNS hostage-taking etc. It's very similar to what's already done to provide number portability in mobile markets.
Be careful with your wishes. "IP number portability", prescribed by the regulation authorities, would be the end of the Internet routing as we know it.
Gert Doering -- APWG
of course internet routing as we know it is doomed anyway, so why not do number portability? --bill