[VoIP] Standards Committee Recommendation

[Greg Blakely]

The Standards Committee has come up with a document that proposes some
changes as to how North American office codes are allocated.  

There was not unanimous agreement on all points, but a general consensus
was obtained.

You can (and should) view the entire document at either 
http://www.ckts.info/standards/CNET-Number-Assignments.pdf or at 
http://www.shaneyoung.com/cnet/standards/CNET-Standards-Assignments.pdf.

Basically, it proposes that, for North American participants in the
network:

+ Rather than having an assignment of 1-NNX, a smaller block would be
assigned, 
  along the lines of 1-NXX-X.

+ Reserving numbers will be discontinued, with participants able to
activate 
  their selection online when they are ready to start testing

+ Office codes will not have a zero or one as the second digit of the
three digit code.  
  This leaves open the possibility of using N0/1X as area codes should
we ever decide 
  to go there.

+ Switchers who already have dialing plans in place that are not in
compliance with 
  these plans will be grandfathered in to accommodate someone who has
gone to the
  time and trouble to get online with the non-compliant configuration.
The end fate
  of the non-compliant implementations will be discussed in committee at
a later date,
  and will probably be changed or allowed on a case-by-case basis.


This is just MY summary of the document we approved.  PLEASE go to one
of the links listed above, and decide for yourself if it is a standard
that is generally sound or not.

Thanks,

Greg

CNET: +1-652-6610