[66] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Clark)
Fri Jul 28 07:19:17 1995
To: Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 07:14:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henry Clark <hclark@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu, usdomreg@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: <9507280948.AA04343@ncc.ripe.net> from "Geert Jan de Groot" at Jul 28, 95 11:48:03 am
> As far as I know, there is no 'congestion' on the 800-namespace.
> maybe, one of the reasons is that these 'records' have a fixed, 7-digit
> length, and 'vanity' numbers have the same length as ugly ones,
> spreading the load.
Currently, the 800 space is filling up and they're considering using
another 3 digit area-code (hadn't heard on what they'd finally decided on)
for toll-free calls. The curious thing is that if you have a vanity number
in 800, there's some motivation to get the same vanity number under the new
area code. Doesn't help the {un}clogging of 800 at all... maybe the
IANA would be willing to sell vanity IPv6 addresses :-).
henry
