1 Oct
2006
1 Oct
'06
8:38 p.m.
It's very strange to think of "area
codes" in terms of today's
technology. I'd have expected that the telcos would have long since
assigned everyone their own personal non-area-coded 11 digit
universal telephone number.
There would be tremendous privacy issues with having phone numbers
forcibly stuck to people (not to mention how it would interact with
cases like mine - I "own" four different phone numbers: house land
line, house fax line, house data line, and cell line).
Besides, it would be routing hell for the telcos - fine initially, but
as people move around you'd get the equivalent of what the Internet
routing tables would look like if every route were advertised as a /32.
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