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Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP

Posted by simoniker on from the snatch-and-grab dept.

Jeremy Kister writes "According to a post on the North American Network Operators Group mailing-list, The State of New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order, allowing a former customer of Net Access Corporation (NAC) to take non-portable IP Address space (issued from ARIN), away from NAC." The post argues: "This is a matter is of great importance to the entire Internet community. This type of precedent is very dangerous. If this ruling is upheld it has the potential to disrupt routing throughout the Internet, and change practices of business for any Internet Service Provider."

14 of 802 comments (clear)

  1. Cool! by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can be banned from Slashdot wherever I go!

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    1. Re:Cool! by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yep!

      i find it funny when im banned... but can still use my mod points...

      sucks that so many people come through the same gateway. someone in this office must belong to the GNAA..... i have my suspicions....

    2. Re:Cool! by Ignignot · · Score: 5, Funny

      I too, have been "forced" to post /. stories from work. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a shiftless slacker - ack here comes my boss!

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    3. Re:Cool! by ScuzzMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're already being forced to jump through hoops... I think he's just suggesting you install ramps. :)

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    4. Re:Cool! by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd want to keep 86.75.30.9 as well. It's the ip address for jenny.com.

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  2. Portable numbers by deuist · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, the U.S. Post Office is letting users keep their zip codes when they move.

  3. Re:Ouch... Keep your IP? by freeduke · · Score: 5, Funny
    Everytime I buy a new computer, I sue the NIC manufacturer to give me the same MAC address as my old one.

    When rules are for the others, is there any rule left?

  4. IP and phone numbers by tod_miller · · Score: 5, Funny

    It isn't really that crazy.

    IP addresses are like phone numbers. Except on the other end, there can be anything. In fact the Internet used to run by dialing the exact computer you wanted to talk to didn't it? Or was that pre-Internet? I am too young to remember :-)

    I say we hope he is a bit slow, and let him keep 1 class B and on class D address, two for the price of one.

    May I recommend 192.168.*.* and 127.0.0.1

    He can have them! :-)

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  5. More on this... by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'll be moving in a few months ... I'd like to take the following things with me when I move:

    • The next-door neighbor. She's cute, and I deserve access to the same when I move.
    • Hot water. It's included in my current apartment. I shouldn't have to start paying when I move.
    • The wireless internet connection I've been sniffing for the past 5 months. It better have the same strength too.
    • The fruit-stand on the corner on my way to work? Bringing it with me ...
    • My mailing address ... It's been mine for a few years... I'm liberating it from the future owner and claiming it as my own.
  6. Re:they should get a clue by byolinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not like someone you knew ten years ago is going to try to contact you on that IP..

    You insenstive clod! Most of my friends don't have DNS, they can only use IP addresses. If my IP changes, they'll be unable to get their email!

    Next you'll be telling me that bang path email addresses aren't cool, either!

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  7. I am moving, please let me take my GPS co-od! by takochan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your honor,

    I am moving, please tell the govt to let me take my GPS co-ordinates with me!

    doh...

  8. Re:It just goes to show you... by Nintendork · · Score: 3, Funny
    Would the same judge rule that someone can take their street address with them when they move?

    -Lucas

  9. Re:The risks... by morcheeba · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bring that wheel to North Carolina! The roads here are especially designed to be traveled on by 6.00 radian wheels -- the potholes are purposely laid down in that other 0.28 radian section. So, not only is math class easier for the slow kids, but we save 4.45% of highway construction costs!

    (of course, out-of-staters with their fancy 6.28 radian tires will experience substantial bumps when travelling our roads)

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  10. Court Says Customers May Take Postal Adrs Too! by hoggoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    This Just In:

    The court has just declared that customers may also take their postal addresses with them when they move.
    So now if your customers, friends, and relatives have come to know your address as "1010 Elwood Drive" and you move across town or to a new city, you can bring the address with you to avoid confusion! Isn't that great!?

    Soon each building, or even each office or apartment within a building will have it's own completely unique address without regard to where it is physically located.

    We should make judges and lawyers in charge of more things so we can get great conveniences like this in all our life!

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