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Re: [Enum] Why not re-use interim procedures for infrastructure ENUM?

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 06 February 2006 15:45 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com>
Subject: Re: [Enum] Why not re-use interim procedures for infrastructure ENUM?
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Jim Reid said:
>> You could assume that the country code was always 3 digits long.  
>> This would
>> require a little more administration by those countries with 1 or 2  
>> digit
>> codes, but not a lot.

> practical perspective, it's nonsense. Sorry. Even with DNS cacheing,  
> the extra latency induced by additional and unnecessary lookups is a  
> killer. And it's just crazy to suggest a scheme where significant  
> numbers of DNS lookups will fail BY DESIGN. Especially when the  
> overwhelming bulk of the world's telephone numbers live under 1 or 2  
> digit country codes.

That doesn't prevent use of my other suggestion.

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