[address-policy-wg] Reopening discussion on RIPE Policy Proposal 2006-05

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:30:41AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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

	of course internet routing as we know it is doomed anyway, so
	why not do number portability?

--bill