phone types]

[ginny listman]

Just a repeat of what I said earlier:

We (ARIN) would like to format US/CA phone number in the format of
+1-999-999-9999.  In other words, drop all initial 0's and 1's, and then
there should be 10 digits.  Then format it.  If there is non-digits, they
are lost.  If there are not exactly 10 digits, it's an error.  I should
also mention, extensions would be included on a separate line.  This would
be a free-form line to include up to 10 chars.

As far as non-US/CA numbers, we haven't gotten that far.  (But we will get
there.)

There was some brief discussion as to whether is should be ".", "-" or " "
to separate the numbers.  Do we need to revisit?

Ginny

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Shane Kerr wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:27:40AM -0500, J. Scott Marcus wrote:
> > At 11:25 01/04/2001 +0100, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> > 
> > >  ...
> > >  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)
> > 
> > 
> > Looks good.  And under this system, am I correct in thinking that my U.S.
> > number would be encoded as:
> > 
> >                       +1 781 2623075   ?
> 
> (I missed the beginning of this thread, so apologies if this was
> mentioned...)
> 
> One possible problem is there's no way for me to know if the person
> entering the phone number is using this form or not.  In such a case, I
> don't know whether the number after the last space is part of the number
> of the extension.
> 
>     +31 20 535 4444
> 
> Does this person sit at extension 4444, or are they merely using one of
> the the local Dutch method?  Unless you can *enforce* the canonical
> form, then perhaps it's not so bad to diferentiate the extension
> somehow?
> 
>    +31 20 535 4444
>    +31 20 535 4444 x427
> 
> In case you were wondering.  :)
> 
> Shane
>