[92678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Oct 3 08:55:05 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610022132470.21230-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:53:57 -0400
To: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3-Oct-2006, at 00:37, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Boy, this is certainly OT.
Yeah. Apologies for contributing to the noise, but since someone
mentioned it earlier...
> I had a suspicion it might be standard somewhere.
The ITU recommendation is E.123 (02/01), ITU article number E20897 in
English. That document recommends that a hyphen, space or period be
used to provide visual separation between groups of numbers;
parentheses are to be used for sections of the number which are
sometimes not dialled, but not in the full international notation
which includes an E.164 country-code.
E.123 also tells us how to write our e-mail addresses and URLs on
business cards, except that it calls URLs "web addresses". At least,
this is what I can glean from the many E.123 summaries I could find,
since the actual document isn't available for free download. We're
certainly lucky to have the ITU.
Joe
