RE: Yet Another SIP Community: www.sipphone.com, enum-trial@localhost

[Richard Shockey <]

At 04:23 PM 8/8/2003 +0200, Stastny Richard wrote:

> On this topic, I sent the following e-mail to Jeff Pulver et al.
> in response to the new "experimental" service:
I certainly want to add my total support to Richard's comments here.


> In case of FWD and iptel.org this is breaking the closed NANP by
> allowing any number of digits (instead of 7). So this never can be
> mapped onto E.164
>
> If you are now creating vanity numbers behind 393, allowing 6 to 26!!!
> digits, this is very weird, considering also that a complete E.164 may
> have only 15 digits.
>
> So even if by miracle FWD, sipphone or iptel.org may get finally these
> NPAs assigned, it would not work.

All these private dialing plans are silly ...but they dont bother me either 
you cannot have a global service without consistancy in naming and addressing.


> BTW, it is also weird for global services to align numbers to the NANP,
> you should align to international E.164.
>
> This will be very confusing for users and also be unresolvable in the
> future if VoIP and PSTN should be linked.
Amen to that...


> You are missing a big chance to create a numbering plan compatible with
> E.164, because by being able to set up a numbering plan from scatch you
> could avoid the pitfalls and restrictions other numbering plan
> administrators have for historical reasons, but you have to obey some
> basic rules and conventions.
Well said...



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