[VoIP] Office code reservation was Number portability in CNET

[Greg Blakely]

I apologize, guys.  I can see that everyone is fairly concerned about
putting their time and energies into a hobby that could fall apart
disastrously if a war over unsettled issues erupts.

Something you should bear in mind: a new network could be started in
competition with this one, so your efforts at making asterisk boxes and
embedded asterisk firewalls would not ultimately go to waste.  You could
always take your marbles and go join a different game.

All that said, I hope that we don't get to that point.  I kinda like all
the back and forth we have on the list, and I would miss it if the noise
level got too low.

I am going to talk with Ian Jolly off-list, and see what it is that they
have put in place that keeps the UK switchers from warring over their
office codes.  I'm sure that the legacy phone network in Britain evolved
over time, so it can't be as cut and dried as it seems.  

Once I hear from him, I would like to get volunteers to be part of a
standards committee.  We could all bring our best ideas, discuss the
issues, along with possible solutions, and then present what we come up
with to everyone on this list for all of us to vote on.

That's the only way I can think of that we can resolve some things
without burning up too much time on this mailing list, rehashing the
same things over and over.

Once we have voted, any policies that we adopt will be added to the
ckts.info website.  

So, if you have a desire to be a part of the standards committee, please
drop me an email off-list, and we'll get this critter going in a
business-like, yet friendly, fashion.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of John Novack
> 
> 
> The UK guys are ahead of us in their policy and planning so I 
> don't consider a discussion out of line.
>
> By having a few policies in place we certainly don't destroy 
> the informal nature of it all.
>