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Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP
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."
Sorry if I'm off-topic, but I thought I'd lend some insight to the question of "average people." The grandparent post might be construed as flamebait or troll if his meaning isn't understood.
TUS Government was originally set up in a way that prevents the "average" people from having the same power as the educated/rich/privileged. A Republic gives the power to the person in office - not the person on the street. The person on the street has the power to put that politician in office... But when it comes down to a vote on nuclear power, the person in office is the one that's going to be responsible for an educated, best-for-everyone decision. Since politicians tend to be well-educated people, that works out. Unfortunately, politicians aren't always responsible, best-for-everyone kinds of people. Which is why the ones that are particularly bad tend to get voted out of office.
It's not to take power away from the people and establish an aristocracy; it's just a way to ensure that the country is run by people that are more qualified to do so.
And I am betting I'll get one as well!
I had the same thing happen to me. It took four friggin' weeks before the ban was lifted. 'course, I emailed Slashdot to ask about it, and after seeing that I was on a banned IP block, they promptly started ignoring my emails.