phone types]

[Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet]

>Country codes in Europe also have the bizarre tendency to vary (SLIGHTLY)
>based on the country from which you are calling.

  Not really, but...

>  That is, the country code
>for France _might_ be different when calling France from Germany than it is
>when calling France from, say, Poland (no, I did not check this particular
>one).

  some PSTN operators offered "shortcuts" to dial into neighbouor
  countries' nets, i.e. the full string to dial into DE (+49) from AT
  (+43) is 00 49 ...., the shortcut was 05 (or was it 06?), but those have
  mostly been phased out.

>Does not happen much, as I recall, but it does happen.

  what does happen, though, is changes within the countries' handling or
  regional codes. Some do not allow the regional code indication digit
  (most of the time this 0 or 9), others ignore it, and others require it
  (e.g. Spain)

>A quick conversation with your counterparts at RIPE or APNIC might be a
>wise investment of time -- they most likely have already dealt with all of
>these issues.

  That is the reason why we try to motivate people to use the canonical
  form of

  +country<space>regional-code<space>subscriber-number<space>extension
  +99 1234 11223344 9999

  An example for AT: +43 1 4277 14033 (POTS, Vienna) or
                     +43 664 1234567 (mobile)
  An example for ES: +34 93 1234567 (POTS, Barcelona)

>My two francs,
>- Scott

  Btw, I've asked the RIPE NCC DB Group's manager to get in touch with
  ARIN staff, to try to align the formats as much as possible.

  Cheers, (my 2 Euro cents)
  Wilfried.
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