ARIN Proposal

[Stephen Satchell]

At 11:43 PM 1/21/97, David Schwartz wrote:
>        If you move, you have to notify your friends, change your mailing
>address everywhere it appears, change your phone number, maybe drive
>further to work, and so on and so forth. Is this grounds for an action
>against your landlord?

But only because the United States Postal Service agrees to forward your
mail for a year (or is it six months now) as you are able to get notices
out.  Ditto the telephone company when you move and they put an intercept
on your telephone number for a set time.

Question:  are there any RFCs which discuss intercept/forwarding of IP
packets based on IP address changes?  If not, then perhaps it's time to
consider putting one together.  That way, when a customer changes providers
the *old* provider would provide forwarding services for a limited time,
just as one telephone operating company provides the intercept for an old
customer who has moved.

Much of the squawking I've seen on this list regarding changing providers
could be fixed with such a scheme.  Then the problem reduces to one of the
multi-homed networks.