[VoIP] Standards Committee Recommendation

[Greg Blakely]

The silence is deafening.

Since nobody has an opinion other than standards committee members, I
declare that the new North American numbering scheme is now officially
one of our standards. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Blakely 
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 6:06 PM
> To: 'Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches'
> Subject: Standards Committee Recommendation
> Importance: High
> 
> 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-Assign
> ments.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
> 
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