[137400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PSTN address expansion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 11 23:28:45 2011
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:28:32 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D5609D4.9050404@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/11/2011 10:17 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> Bah, I substitute your short sighted 12 digits with 40 digit dialing!
> However, because the numbers are too long to remember, you only have
> to speak or type in the name of someone you want to call, and 15
> digits can be assigned to every household or business site, and the
> phones will automatically number themselves, so if you plug your phone
> in somewhere else, only the first 25 digits change.
>
> Jack (hmm, I think the VP will be giving me funny looks now)
My apologies for the error, it will actually be a 32 digit system, and
we're switching to base-16, so all phones will have to be replaced with
phones supporting 0-9A-F.
Jack
