AT&T Public Policy Research -- hiring for cypherpunks

[Loren James Rittle]

>Given that the world of telephony is moving towards Local Number Portability,
>isn't it inevitable that the internet will be expected to provide the
>equivalent functionality?

You have this today in the form of symbolic addresses mapped to an
IP number via DNS (domain name service).

Under IPng, all this becomes easier to manage in the long run, but
DNS has been around for a long time.  I'd bet that the phone company
stole the idea from the Internet... :-)

Loren

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