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[ITU+IETF] RE: [Enum] Re: Structure of DNS entry for ENUM

"Manfredi, Albert E" <Albert.Manfredi@PHL.Boeing.com> Fri, 04 February 2000 16:37 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <Albert.Manfredi@PHL.Boeing.com>
To: 'Randy Bush' <randy@psg.com>
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:36:16 -0500
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Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] wrote:

> > However, it's not clear to me why the fields of the E.164 
> number which are
> > clearly delineated, such as country code and city/area 
> code, could not at
> > least have been kept together, delimited by dots. The long 
> series of dots
> > seems a bit excessive?
> 
> because only north americans think country codes and city 
> codes are clearly
> delineatable in a universal way?

Not so. That's what I tried to point out using the European number example.

And if some E.164 number in the future becomes hierarched(??), you can
always add in dots. The result will never be ambiguous.

Bert
albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com

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