On Wed, 28 Jul 1993, Thomas Easterday wrote:
address? If the addresses are taken out of the block and assigned to the site, then it pretty much makes a moot point of the arguements about taking back address if a customer moves to another provider.
I haven't been around the regional scene long enough to have heard all the arguments for/against this, but I can imagine that the issue of who "owns" addresses may eventually end up in the courts (horrors). One could probably make an argument that addresses should belong to the site rather than the provider since, if this were not the case, competition between providers would be stifled (i.e. sites with large numbers of hosts would be forced to include the costs of changing all their addresses when thinking about going with a lower cost or more feature rich provider. Perhaps a technical solution--other than BOOTP-- to alleviate this burden would make the issue go away?). I'm aware of the routing issues which, I assume, providers would use in their arguments for "owning" addresses. Of course, I don't "own" my phone number (at least not yet anyway...) At any rate, I'd appreciate references to papers that discuss these issues... Allen Robel Internet: allen@nwnet.net Network Engineer voice: (206)562-3000 NorthWestNet FAX: (206)562-4822