Hi, On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:29:19PM +0200, Per Heldal wrote:
Market regulators (national and international) should define the requirements and make it mandatory for ISPs to ease the transition from an address-block to another, prevent DNS hostage-taking etc. It's very similar to what's already done to provide number portability in mobile markets.
Be careful with your wishes. "IP number portability", prescribed by the regulation authorities, would be the end of the Internet routing as we know it. Gert Doering -- APWG -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 128645 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279