Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, 2004 @02:33AM 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."

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Re:Cool! by Abcd1234 · 2004-06-29 04:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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.