RE: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
From: Hank Nussbacher
Date: Sat Sep 09 13:45:21 2006
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Tony Li wrote:
And the same way that government forced telephone number portability, I
foresee one day government requiring IP number portability among ISPs in
order to increase competition. So all those SWIPS and PA assignments in
ARIN/RIPE/APNIc may one day be used to allow Acme Nail with their /29
assignment to leave ISP A and move to ISP B. Legislators have been known
to make more idiotic laws and regulations so don't think it couldn't
happen.
Another somewhat important point is that we also need to conserve
routing entries. If you make a market for addresses without regard to
routability, you risk creating a situation where you flood the world
with /32's. No thanks.
Tony