i buy most of what you say except > At that point, virtually every business and every > household will have such a box. Couple that with some > universal directory facility, ie ENUM and you have got a > ubiquitous peer-to-peer telephone network where telcos > will have no role to play other than providing the data > pipes.
why enum? forcing humans to deal with telephone numbers is analogous to asking them to use ip addresses instead of domain names (which are bad enough, but that's another story). do you want to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so why not 'dial' [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever? is it the 12-key pad? but maybe i'll be 'dialing' using my computer's keyboard. after i had spent a bunch of time working out and pushing the enum hack (shamelessly stolen from tpc.int), allison mankin hit me with a clue-by-four and asked what was the sense in mapping phone numbers into a name space that already worked and was sufficient. i felt pretty stoopid. randy _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
