[12558] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat May 21 14:02:55 1994
Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 09:20:29 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@eunet.fi>
To: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9405201108.R248-0100000@newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Alan Barrett writes:
> > >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.)
>
> The very fact that there's no official standard for grouping digits in a
> phone number strikes me as a difficulty for your scheme. Given a phone
> number, how will anybody know how to choose between the many possible
> domainised forms? For example, does the phone number 1234567 map to the
> domain 4567.123? 67.45.123? something else?
>
There is, but it's European, CCITT has standardized but it has had very little
success in many European countries. Standard grouping goes as follows:
1
12
123
1234
12 345
123 456
123 4567
1234 5678
Pete
