Bob, Most ISP's give out fixed IP's for their ADSL customers. Hope this helps, ____________________________________ Leigh Geary - Internet Engineer Internet Central Limited Visit us now for all your Internet solutions - www.netcentral.co.uk WebSupport: www.support.netcentral.co.uk Email: leigh.geary@netcentral.co.uk Direct: 01782 667761 Support: 01782 667766 Sales: 01782 667788 Fax: 01782 667799 This communication is confidential to the addressee shown in the main text of the message. It must not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee unless disclosure is a legal requirement or has been agreed to by a separate written agreement. The company scans for but accepts no responsibility for viruses and it is the addressees responsibility to scan attachments ____________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: owner-support@mail.keele.netcentral.co.uk [mailto:owner-support@mail.keele.netcentral.co.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Arnesen Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:05 PM To: lir-wg@ripe.net Subject: [lir-wg] Static IP addresses We live in Stockholm, Sweden and have the big government telephone company TELIA as our ISP. We have had internet services through their ADSL for a little over a year now and to my surprise I have recently found out that Telia has assigned us a fixed IP address. Every time we log on to the internet we start surfing with the same IP address every time. From a security and personal integrity point of view we may as well be surfing with our Social Security Numbers if thats the case. Of course dealing with a company the size of Telia you are immediately in David against Goliath position, and their position up to now is to just jack us around and assume no responsibility. When we had the old 56K modem and even ISDN, every time we got on the net we had a new IP address. Impossible to trace us and our surfing habits to a specific number. But not so with Telias ADSL. My questions are the following: q Is Telias current practice as I have described considered a breach of privacy for the private person/customer? q Is Telia following agreed International and /or European standards regarding IP addresses? q Am I able to lodge a formal complaint against such practices, either at the Ripe 44 meeting in Amsterdam in January or somewhere else? I do hope that The LIR-WG will be able to provide me with some answers. Regards, Robert Arnesen _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. Service supplied by Internet Central http://www.internet-central.net