Re: Tired of Waiting

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>]

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> 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.

Phone numbers aren't like routing information? Then why do we have area
codes and exchange prefixes?

Further, I would love to have a truly permanent, portable IP address(es). 
I imagine lots of folks would. 

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