Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cheviot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!lindsay From: lindsay@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: IDDD Message-ID: <203@cheviot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 10:57:49 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.203 Posted: Fri Jan 4 10:57:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:52:32 EST Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall) Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 23 [] Well, people seem at long last to be starting to understand the problem!! We are not interested in the peculiarities and anomalies in how peoples' local phone systems work - what we want is the equivalent of a path name from a given point. The +n scheme is relative to a "world root" and so can be interpreted by ANYONE. I dont see why the rest of the world should suffer because US phone companies deny their subscribers the correct information :-) ! (Note the convention - +1 xxx xxxxx NOT 1 xxx xxxx which is something entirely different!!) An example : My number is +44 632 329233 in the UK you drop the +44, and add a 0 - 0632 329233 in Newcastle you drop the 44 and the 632 giving 329233 (there are also even more localised variants involving prefixs - these depend on the exchange involved and are fully documented in a booklet issued to all subscribers to a particular exchange) I think that there is some kind of standard governing this which says that the International prefix is two digits, which explains why the US is +1 !!! By the way, in response to one item - yes, some of us do use International Direct Dialling for calls very regularly indeed. Lindsay F. Marshall - Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne ARPA : lindsay%cheviot%newcastle.mailnet@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA UUCP :!ukc!cheviot!lindsay