Re: Tired of Waiting

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Patrick Greenwell writes:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> 
> > PS: Didn't we just have the US Congress mandate "number portability" for
> > local phone companies to prevent just this kind of "lock-in" - and for much
> > the same reason, which is that it's much harder to change your phone number
> > than your credit card number.
> 
> Please, when customers are guaranteed IP portability, let me know....

Phone numbers aren't like IP addresses. IP addresses are much more
like routing information -- the stuff that is permanent in the IP
world is the domain name, not the IP address.

Perry