[188783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: phone fun,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tim@pelican.org)
Fri Apr 15 11:13:11 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:13:08 +0100 (BST)
From: "tim@pelican.org" <tim@pelican.org>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.11.1604151015200.28937@ary.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Friday, 15 April, 2016 15:51, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> said:=0A=
=0A> The US and most of the rest of North America have a fixed length=0A> n=
umbering plan designed in the 1940s by the Bell System. They offered=0A> i=
t to the CCITT which for political and technical reasons decided to=0A> do =
something else. (So when anyone complains that the NANP is=0A> "non-standa=
rd", you had your chance.) Fixed length numbers allowed=0A> much more soph=
isticated call routing with mechanical switches than=0A> variable length di=
d.=0A=0A[and a bunch more stuff]=0A=0AThanks John - no bashing was intended=
, genuinely interested in the different models / histories, and that helps.=
=0A=0ARegards,=0ATim.=0A
