[lir-wg] Static IP addresses

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:05:22PM +0200, Bob Arnesen wrote:
> My questions are the following:
> 
>  *       Is Telia’s current practice as I have described considered a breach
> of privacy for the private person/customer?
> *       Is Telia following agreed International and /or European standards
> regarding IP addresses?
> *       Am I able to lodge a formal complaint against such practices, either
> at the Ripe 44 meeting in Amsterdam in January or somewhere else?
> 
> I do hope that The LIR-WG will be able to provide me with some answers.

Your approach is *interesting*.  

Usually people are quite happy if they can get a fixed IP address at all
(which could be used to provide services, set up a VPN connection to
your home network from abroad, and whatnot), and the cheap DSL services
*usuall* provide only dynamic IP addresses.

I don't think there is anything formally wrong with providing you
a static IP address, so there is no basis for a "formal" complaint.

As for the privacy concerns - there are worse things than tracking IP
addresses (HTML cookies, web bugs, and so on) - you might want to check 
services as www.anonymizer.com that have been set up to handle exactly
all those issues.

Gert Doering
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