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Re: [Enum] Re: URI Portability

"Stastny Richard" <Richard.Stastny@oefeg.at> Wed, 08 February 2006 17:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Enum] Re: URI Portability
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James,

>I must be missing something.  As far as I know, individually-owned 
>or company-owned domain names ARE portable.  I can have any service 
>provider run a web server for my domain.  I can have a separate 
>provider handle my email.  I can have lots of providers handle lots 
>of different services for me, and I can switch any particular 
>service from any provider to any other at any time.   

>What kind of portability isn't already implemented?  What portability 
>functions are you looking for that aren't available today? 
 
you can port jamesbaskin.com and Yahoo can port yahoo.com to any provider,
but you cannot port james.baskin@yahoo.com independently to a different
service provider. So if you leave yahoo.com, you loose james.baskin@yahoo.com
 
Richard

Jim 

========================== 
Richard Stastny wrote: 

IMHO "portability" of domains held by individuals or companies
must be implemented, but not portability within domains held
by an ISP or VoIP SP such as yahoo.com or verizon.net

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