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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
Hank Nussbacher wrote: 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. Imagine what that will do to the routing tables. How many /32s can we get into the RIBs these days? :-) That might work under IPv6 - at which point the question becomes "How many /64s can we put into the RIBs?" (or whatever number becomes standard for giving a residential customer) I would argue however that equating Phone# to Domain Name would be a more proper alignment - and Domains are very portable. The IP address, since it is usually only used at the technical level, would be more equivalent to the switching center/line pair. I could carry on with the comparison, but I suspect most will get my point. Happily, you can already take your domain with you. Oh - and within certain geographical constraints local number portability is also used on landline phones in the US, not just cellphones. -- Jeff Shultz
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