ISPs do exist for customers, not customers do exist to feed ISPs in the most convenient way for the ISPs. Some folks seem to forget that, looking at all the discussion trying to ignore the demand for real multihoming (and that includes TE and network-wide routing policy implementation, neither being delivered by things like shim6).
BTW... in Germany, the phone operators were forced to implement phone number portability by law. The regulator didn't care about all the whining from the telcos about that being impossible, uneconomic, the world will explode etc. If they manage to get that imposed on the traditional telcos, I wonder how much easier it will be to do that on the ISPs.
Regards, Daniel
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why does this remind me of the law passed (in several different jurisdictions, if the urban myths are to be believed) that mandated PI == 3.2. ... legal talent can not change some laws. --bill