RE: (UPDATE) Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

[Brian Wallingford <brian () meganet net>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote:

:
:
:> What I AM looking for is a commentary from the internet community,
:> strictly relating to the fact that a judge has issued a TRO that forces an
:> ISP (NAC) to allow a third-party, who WILL NOT be a Customer of NAC, to be
:> able to use IP Space allocated to NAC. In other words, I am asking people
:> to if they agree with my position, lawsuit or not, that non-portable IP's
:> should not be portable between parties, especially by a state superior
:> court ordered TRO.
:
:       It is at least my opinion that this is a ludicrous argument. While this
:would certainly cause problems if everyone did it and it isn't the norm,
:it's ridiculous to argue that there could never exist a situation where this
:might not be the best temporary solution to a legitimate dispute between
:parties.
:
:       Consider, for example, if I'm a large customer single-homed to one ISP.
:They go out of business and can't continue to provide me with service with
:four hours notice.

Consider Randy's ealier recollection, which many should also recall.  In
the context of the currently publicly available documents, any further
discussion is less than operationally relevant.

cheers,
brian