On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:57 -0400, Bill Sandiford wrote: > They come from 2 sources (well ultimately 1, but anyways)
So the Internet has the http://www.IANA.org that doles out IP addresses and other number spaces to the world. What's the equivalent in telephony? Who assigns the country codes? Who in canada/us assigns the area codes? Who then assigns the exchanges? I presume it's the carrier that assigns the actual last 4 digits.
