RE: Long-term viability: telephone numbers as aliases

[Alexis Bor <Alexis.Bor@globaltel.com>]

It is not unusual for Area Codes in the United States to be split where
half of the users are assigned a new area code.  Not very stable.



Alexis Bor
GlobalTel
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Seattle, WA  98102
206-720-7250
206-720-7251 (fax)
alexis.bor@globaltel.com


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>From: 	johnl@iecc.com[SMTP:johnl@iecc.com]
>Sent: 	Thursday, November 21, 1996 9:21 AM
>To: 	TMCGHAN@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
>Cc: 	iahc-discuss@iahc.org
>Subject: 	Re: Long-term viability: telephone numbers as aliases
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>>> Current naming conventions probably cannot be sustained...
>>> Most individuals/organizations already have unique identifiers
>>> (telephone numbers) ...
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>There already is a telephone number domain called tpc.int.  Phone
>numbers such as:
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>	+1 802 555 2368
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>are represented by reversing the number and making each digit a component:
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>	8.6.3.2.5.5.5.2.0.8.1.tpc.int.
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>It's ugly, but it has the important property that sub-domains can be
>created starting at any digit, just like the real phone system does.
>This scheme was used for an e-mail to fax delivery experiment and it
>wasn't all that successful, partly because of the ugly addresses and
>partly because the experiment, having no budget, depended on volunteer
>sites to do the actual faxing.  It worked technically, each delivery
>site could sign up for the part of the number space that was a local
>call to them.
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>In any event, if anyone wants phone number based domain addresses,
>here they are.  Personally, I don't want them, partly because they're
>so ugly, but mainly because I greatly value the feature that my domain
>addresses didn't change when I moved, even though all of my phone
>numbers did (other than one old number that I have forwarded at extra
>cost.)
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>-- 
>John R. Levine, IECC, POB 640 Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
>johnl@iecc.com "Space aliens are stealing American jobs." - MIT econ prof
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