POTS; was: Anyone here from Oregon USA to help with collection pickup?

So did mine. Basically, I see three reasons to not give individuals individual phone numbers which stick to the individual. One is that the individual -> phone number mapping is neither one-to-one nor onto, and many of the reasons why this is so would not go away; two is the privacy and related concerns; three is hat we don't know how to route even 1e9, much less 1e11, individual addresses worldwide when there's no topological hierarchy available to simplify the problem (note that both the large routing networks in operation today, the Internet and the PSTN, use hierarchical routing in some form). /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B