- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:59:49 PDT
- To: "Patrik Fältström" <paf@swip.net>, "Vaha-Sipila Antti (NMP)" <antti.vaha-sipila@nmp.nokia.com>
- Cc: <uri@Bunyip.Com>
> The conclusion from my side is only that I see problems with starting > beliving that we can do something about the highly unstructured telephone > number allocation problem on the Internet. We can not, and from my point of > view, should not. It is better if the URL is "just" phone:number. Patrik, the Internet Fax group came to a different conclusion, after consultation with a number of experts in the telephone industry. There is a single global telephone number space, whose use is increasing, and which makes a uniform reference space, and such numbers belonged in the standard for global access. From the global phone number perspective, you can treat tel://n1/n2/n3/n4 as if "//" were an initial "+" and "/" were just a delimiter, but from an implementation perspective, the creator of such a URL is asserting a hierarchy. In Denmark, there would be no hierarchy after the initial tel://denmark-code/number. Any kind of area, city or region code would be entirely optional. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter > > Patrik > >
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