Regardless, this is not a telephony issue ("Can I take my cell number with me?"), as the courts as seem disposed to diagnose these days, but rather, a technical one insofar as the IP routing table efficiency. "Friends of the court" won't work here unless the technical implications are presented in pablum form, methinks. This is indeed a technical, as well as as an engineering issue (before someone starts yelling about this thread being off-topic). FWIW, and pssing into the wind, the U.S. Courts need a real dose of reality anyways WRT attempting to legislate chaos. My $.02, - ferg -- "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net> wrote: What you really should try is to have ARIN provide "friend of the court" brief and to explain to judge policies and rules in regards to ip space, so you need to have your laywer get in touch with ARIN's lawyer. You can probably even force them to provide a statement or testimony (if they don't volunterily) as part of discovery process. P.S. You might as well provide name of the customer now. Since its gone through court, its all now public info (i.e. TRO) anyway. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net