Privacy, Broadband, & the Database

At 12:25 PM 29/11/2000, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
>=The same rule should apply to all assignments. If a (home) network
>=contact person doesn't want to be 'listed', s/he can try to live
>=without real network and buy NAT from a provider.
>
>   That's a very valid point.

I don't agree. There should not have to be a tradeoff between IP address 
and privacy... you should not be forced to use NAT simply to protect your 
phone number.

I think that the original solution of listing the provider is a good 
real-world workaround.



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Alex French
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