Richard Shockey wrote: > Because. Its not declining or disappearing .. just ask the mobile operators FYI, KDDI, the second largest mobile operator in Japan, has just announced to support skype as a formal application. It's inevitable as data traffic is exceeding voice traffic. It is true that IETF has been stalling on not only IPngs but also mobile IPs. But mobile architecture will change as the integration of 3G and WiFi networks proceeds. > who have added several billion new mobile handsets over the past few years. New *SMART* mobile handsets are ready to run skype as an application. > Analog POTS is certainly dying ISDN, which was about to have 10M subscribers in Japan before DSL era, is dying even more rapidly. > but the E.164 namespace is doing even better > than domain names. The question I already asked is: who pays for it. Clearly, mobile users won't want to pay to maintain E.164 for POTS. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf