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."

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Re:Portable numbers

[Larry Lightbulb]

An April fools programme on NPR: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=18056 51

Lon & Lat

[Libertarian_Geek]

I want to take my coordinates with me when I move! Everyone else will just have to deal with it, from topozone to GPS manufacturers!.

(Please take the above as a healthy dose of sarcasm)