[12520] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri May 20 05:09:07 1994
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 21:50:19 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Alan Barrett's message of Thu, 19 May 1994 09:52:54 +0200 (GMT+0200) <Pine.3.89.9405190907.D248-0100000@newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za>
>From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
>Barry Shein said:
>> So unless someone knows of a phone numbering convention out there that
>> uses three digits at the other end then howsabout only one end of the
>> tuple can be exactly three digits and that's the country code. And you
>> read from that end.
>
>Around here, I don't think there's any official standard way of grouping
>the digits.
Well, then it doesn't matter in this case, so pick any convention
which also works with the proposed standard (i.e. don't make the least
significant tuple 3 digits.)
>I don't believe that it's reasonable for the net to dictate to the
>telcos of the world/galaxy/universe that "thou shalt not implement a
>numbering scheme in which a group of three digits appears at the end of
>a number".
No one is dictating to telcos, yow, would that we could!
We're just saying that three-digit least-significant groupings are
very rare practice*, are easy to work around if any cases it do come
up (e.g. just coalesce two groups, or a pad character could be
introduced) thus it's not a problem or basis for objection to the
proposal.
>Until a couple of years ago, phone numbers in the rural area where my
>parents lived were exactly three digits, after a three-digit exchange
>code. Then they inserted "91" at the front of everybody's number, so
>now it's 91-XXX instead of just XXX.
* That is, the two examples thus far have been your situation where
grouping is not de facto standardized anyhow and 3-digits is only one
among a few acceptable possibilities in use, and yours and someone
else's recollection of some distant past not in use any longer. Unless
some major examples come to light I'd say that's pointing towards
rather rare, and the easy workaround in those cases (coalesce) sounds
workable.
-Barry Shein
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