[Fwd: Re: phone types]

[Linda]

Would it be difficult for ARIN to check when the template is parsed for either
a 1 or 011 as the leading numbers for the contact number?  If a person submits
invalid information to ARIN and after it is parsed and found to contain errors
a rejection message as is currently sent should be sent to the person so they
may correct their error.  I do not see a problem with asking people to include
the 1 or 011 with their contact number.  As for the nomailbox at NOWHERE will
ARIN ask those POCs to give a correct mailbox now that you have found their
address to be invalid?

Linda

ginny listman wrote:

> 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
> >