On 2013-08-22 20:00, sk53.osm wrote:

As the NSA clearly don't process their data according to E.164 (otherwise how could they confuse Washington DC area code with Egypt), I think we can skip it too!

Yes well they have a habit of being rather parochial in their view of the world. Everyone makes mistakes, and I guess they might be taking steps to prevent recurrence. That does not provide an argument to discredit an established international standard. Obviously you understand that in the US number 1-202-555-1212 the initial 1 is not the country code. You would be surprised how many people don't.


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