> On Jul 18, 2022, at 9:26 PM, Hunter Fuller via VoiceOps > <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Aside from "it was initially done for a reason that is no longer > relevant" - that does not hold water to me because phone numbers > themselves exist for the same reason. If we invented VoIP today, > everyone would use SIP URIs only, so it would be the same as your > email address.)
Well. Maybe. But phone numbers continue to serve a defensible purpose as a universally routable identifier. You can argue that their structure or format is obsolete, but you can’t say they don’t *do* anything. You can still send a call to a number to a PSTN switch and it will know where - anywhere in the world - to send it. Billions of people rely on this functionality daily. It does work. Dialing an “outside line”, in contrast, serves _no_ purpose, because there literally is no “outside line”. The only reason to continue it is to perpetuate user custom and habit. — Alex -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
