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An IP is not a global phone number. You cannot port the same "number" from one carrier to another. If we want that, global orgs in charge of the global phone n
by sylware 3y ago
An IP is not a global phone number. You cannot port the same "number" from one carrier to another.
If we want that, global orgs in charge of the global phone number mapping must coordinate around some slice of the IPv6 address space (what they already do with international roaming of phone numbers). This will be very hard to operate safely, very probably.
- bombcar 3y agoThere remain the trappings of what was designed to be static IPv6 addresses that would dynamically route to the network that device was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP I don't know if it's actually being used. IIRC since then everything has moved to a higher layer.
- sylware 3y agoI cannot tell neither how things would work in that IPv6 address slice, but "peer synced" sub-slices would be needed.