[governance] phones vs. the Internet, was NTIA announcement on JPA

[McTim]

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On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:57 AM, John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com> wrote:
> >> Except that none of them have a chokepoint analgous to the DNS root,
>  >
>  >Factually wrong. International telephone country codes need to be
>  >globally coordinated, just as the DNS root zone does.
>
>  Hi, Milt.  Actually, it's factually right.  The phone system is not
>  one system, it's a bunch of national or regional systems connected
>  together with gateways, more analogous to the way e-mail worked in the
>  1990s than the way the Internet works.  The numbering plan is
>  currently mostly consistent around the world, but unlike the Internet,
>  different countries have different incompatible hardware and software,
>  and there have been plenty of inconsistent dialing plans, shortcut
>  numbers, countries with wierdo rules for international dialing, you
>  name it.  We don't even have consistent dialing in New York and
>  Vermont.  The signalling in North America is completely incompatible
>  with the signalling in Europe or South America, with gateways at the
>  border to glue them together.  A coordinated numbering space is merely
>  a convenience to the telephone system, not essential like consistent
>  IP and DNS addressing are for the Internet.


That is correct, sir
plus no rootzone lookup, yes?
I'll take the under


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McTim
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