[VoIP] Numbering - existing use of 311

[Steph Kerman]

Actually, 311 is being used  in some places within the NANP.  NYC uses 
it for non-emergency calls to municipal agencies to get these calls off 
911.  ISTR talk about something similar being proposed for a city in the 
SF Bay Area a few years ago, perhaps San Jose.

Steph

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Greetings, I'm not presently a member (don't have any vintage switchgear)
> but know of cnet through a friend who is a participant.
>
> I run a couple of Asterisk installations, and am thinking about numbering
> options, particularly for interconnecting multiple Asterisks.  I'm looking
> at various ways to direct calls off a switch, such as fake Feature Group D
> dialing prefixes, or fake NPAs, or simply assigning portions of internal
> numberspace to a given external switch.
>
> In any case, I figured I'd read through the mailing list archives here to
> see how cnet has solved the problem.  For some reason, I was under the
> impression that cnet was using 311 as an NPA, but I guess that isn't the
> case and individual members must simply be integrating cnet numberspace
> into their numbering plans in various ways they devise personally.  Or
> just aren't integrating PSTN and cnet numberspace.
>
> How are folks doing this?  Or are they?  For cnet, it seems like using
> an nonassignable "NPA" like 311 would make sense, since it would let you
> seamlessly integrate cnet numbers into the PSTN dialing without
> collision problems.
>
> The mentions of ENUM also piqued my interest.  Is cnet running an ENUM
> DNS server somewhere?  It'd be neat if it was actually under
> 1.1.3.1.e164.arpa. or some such.
>
> -Mark
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