Re: address portability

John Day <day@bbn.com> Wed, 15 July 1998 19:30 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:54:51 -0400
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@RESEARCH.ATT.COM>, Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>
From: John Day <day@bbn.com>
Subject: Re: address portability
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, ietf@ietf.org, List@giaw.org, comments@iana.org, discussion-draft@giaw.org

At 13:32 -0400 7/15/98, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>At 09:12 AM 7/15/98 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>>
>>Further, I would love to have a truly permanent, portable IP address(es).
>>I imagine lots of folks would.

But it wouldn't be an address.

Noel, you want to explain this or is it worth it?