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."

Comments

Jersey Swerve

[Doc Ruby]

They drive like that, too.

Re:Cool!

[ShitPissFuckCuntTits]

Not to venture too far Off Topic here, but Slashdot actually bans the entire class C subnet of anyone who posts a comment which is moderated down. Take a look through your comment history (you need to be a subscriber) and think carefully. Have you ever posted anything someone might not like? A single comment about atheism or in defense of Microsoft could get you banned.

There's extended coverage of this topic in the May issue of Slashdot's premier meta-mag.

Hope this helps! As far as the IP blocks following us around, I expect this decision to be reversed. It goes against most existing IP law.

Re:Cool!

[SQLz]

I've seen it 1000 times. Its because Windows folks use ping to look up hostnames and IP addresses. I don't think their machines come with the proper utilities and they are usually not clued in enough to know anything about DNS, otherwise I would hold it against them.