[Fwd: Re: phone types]

[ginny listman]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linda wrote:

> The  NANP (North American Numbering Plan) (1+) covers North America as
> well as the most of the Caribbean Islands as listed below.  It should be
> the responsibility of the person submitting the contact information to
> include either the 1 or 011 contact number.  ARIN should not have to
> take time to figure out if the number lies within the NANP or if the
> number is an international number. 

This is a great idea, but if we want valid data in the database, we will
have to do some form of checking.  Totally relying on the user to full
read the instructions, and put valid information on every line, has
created a database full of bogus information.   I just did a database
query and came up with close to 15K POCs that have an mailbox of
nomailbox at NOWHERE.  This is useless information, that we should not be
storing.  Going forward, we want to avoid storing or displaying
invalid/useless information.

>                                  
> Linda
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