Re: "portability" of IP Addresses

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Lee Howard wrote:

ISP A can regulate IP addresses allocated, yes, but it can only regulate internal policy. I would think ISP A's position for regulating address announcement would be particularly weak if assignment had been publicly made to a customer, such as with SWIP.

Since ISPs are _required_ to SWIP, you can't assume that a SWIP means anything except that the ISP that SWIPped it wants a registry to know those IPs are in use by a customer, especially in address space that is marked non-portable. DS