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[FYI] U.S. backs merging Net, phone numbers
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-984591.html
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U.S. backs merging Net, phone numbers
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 13, 2003, 6:15 PM PT
WASHINGTON--The Bush administration is lending its support to an
international proposal to map telephone numbers to Internet
addresses.
In a recent internal letter, the Commerce Department recommended that
the United States participate in an emerging electronic numbering
system, known as ENUM, that will allow people to use one identifier
for many different purposes, including mobile phones, e-mail, instant
messaging and faxes. ENUM is designed to accelerate the convergence
of the telephone network and the Internet and is expected to offer a
huge boost to online telephony services.
"The United States should seize this opportunity and take steps to
participate in e164.arpa, consistent with the highest standards of
security, competition, and privacy," wrote Assistant Secretary Nancy
Victory in the letter to the State Department. The domain that will
be used with ENUM addresses ends with e164.arpa.
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