[Fwd: Re: phone types]

[Linda]

ginny listman wrote:

> It would not be difficult to check.  However, a country code is a required
> field.  If the country code is US or CA, if the +1 was not provided, the
> software should be intellegent enough to add it.  I want to avoid sending
> back errors that would be easy for us to fix.  If the information is input
> via the web, it would not allow you to submit.

>Does ARIN have a plan for the rest of the North American Numbering Plan community,
excluding the US and Canada?

>
>
> As far as sending a message back regarding invalid information, that is
> one of our goals.  Ideally, manually processing by RSG should be at a
> minimum.
>
> As far as going back and asking for valid information for the "nomailbox"
> mailboxes, we plan on doing a re-registration to verify the existing data
> in the database.  However, this will probably be 2-3 years away.  This
> rule will be enforced going forward.

>Having invalid information for POCs makes more work for all parties involved
including ARIN staff.

> >Linda
>

>
> Ginny
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Linda wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > >
> >