Richard Shockey wrote: > So what is your point ..you don't use phone numbers so the rest of the > planet shouldn't? As PSTN will disappear, E.164 will also disappear, because there will be no PSTN operator to maintain E.164 number space. Or, do you think people may keep paying for the maintenance fee for e164.arpa. subtree in addition to maintenance fee for their own domain names? I don't think so. Note that I wrote in my paper for INET2000 that: http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/4a/4a_3.htm However, it is obvious that the telephone network will be replaced by the Internet, and will eventually disappear. At that time, most of the features of VoIP protocols will become obsolete. and e164.arpa. will be obsolete. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf