Convergence can be done within a DNS

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Date/Time: Fri, August 11, 2000 at 11:29 PM GMT

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Subject: Convergence can be done within a DNS

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Assume you want to translate a phone number to an IP address (chould it be IPv4 or IPv6), this can already be done using DNS:
Example: you want to translate a phone number in France, say:
+33.1.23456789
You could think it can be done by requesting a domain name like:
123456789.33.phone
(This assumes that phone is a TLD, in which each international phone code is registered and operated as a sub-TLD, and then the number is solved appropriately within that country registry.)
However there are issues, such that renumbering schemes (how many digits have to be searched ?)
Another solution is to use the reversed phone number and cutting phone number in individual digits:
9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.3.3.phone
That way, you do not have to parse the phone number to find the minimum set of digits that successfully resolves a domain name, and the numering plan can be changed by distributing sub-DNS in each country. Because this domain name is algorithmicly implement, it lacks of readability. So each country could decide on the usual format to give to phone numbers so that they can be easily parsed.
Requesting the DNS could then return additional information, such that the kind of information that can be returned by reversed phone number searchs, however there are some privacy issues that should restrict the information returned by DNS requests.
What I mean here, is that converging numbering plans to IP is not necessary, because this process can be automated within dynamic DNS servers operated by country phone registries and ITU.

Message Thread:

Welcome — Hans Kraaijenbrink, February 15, 2000 @ 7:28 PM (1/10)

Convergence of Telephone and Internet IP Numbering — rcbartel, February 16, 2000 @ 5:26 AM (2/9)

Re: Convergence of Telephone and Internet IP Numbering — sob, February 16, 2000 @ 7:22 PM (1/1)

Perhaps more background info would help? — kent, February 22, 2000 @ 7:41 AM (0/0)

Convergence of Telephone and Internet IP Numbering — Hans Kraaijenbrink, February 16, 2000 @ 8:08 AM (2/6)

Convergence can be done within a DNS — verdy_p, August 11, 2000 @ 11:29 PM (0/0)
convergence of phone and internet IP numbering — jefsey, June 19, 2000 @ 2:16 PM (3/4)

Geographical Grid for numbering — askalbag, August 4, 2000 @ 3:40 PM (1/1)

I hate to be a pessimist, I really do.. — dchemko, August 9, 2000 @ 3:28 AM (0/0)

re: convergence of phone and IP numbering — 9m2rt, July 4, 2000 @ 9:13 AM (0/0)
Phone numbers have had there day in the sun, let it go — dank, July 3, 2000 @ 7:44 PM (0/0)

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