[92673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Non-Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Oct 2 21:09:34 2006
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610021534070.27388-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly
> because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid
> IP-Address-Wannabe method, like:
> 206.555.1212
> As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, like
> commas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd hate to
> sound critical if it was. It just seems that I know a large amount of
> very American people who have decided that phone numbers with periods in
> them somehow look more "hip" than dashes. I despise that.
I remember running across a standards document which defined it once...
ITU, probably. Plus sign, country code, area code, number, space
delimited. I don't have the energy to google (hi, verb-searching IP
lawyers!) for it exhaustively, but here's one reference, third paragraph
down:
http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/utw/96feb.html
and here's another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164
-Bill
