Re: Send-N draft: draft-bellis-enum-send-n-02 published

Lawrence Conroy said:
> Hi again Clive,
>  again, I respectfully suggest that you are atypical.
> The numbers that you call may well be different from those called by
> your neighbours, but there is typically a fairly well defined called
> circle (albeit with "outliers") for most people - unless perhaps they
> run a one-man call centre.
> 
> A counter-argument: In my case, I have many calls to a small set of
> numbers - the top 5 make up well over 2/3 of the number of calls I make
> (and *much* more in terms of total call length).

> On 11 Jul 2008, at 14:02, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>> Looking at my phone bill, there's little similarity in called numbers.

I think there's a misunderstanding here. Peter wrote:

| >> if you just let the client remember what a "full number" was; I've been
| >> told this is already done.
| > What do you mean by a "full number"? The whole problem is that it isn't a
| > simple thing to determine.
| It is, once you succeded to placing a call there.  If the client (or the
| PBX) remembers a list of dialed numbers, you can follow the digits until
| you either match the number again or until you find the first differing
| digit.

I read this as a suggestion along the lines of: customer calls 01234567890,
therefore you can deduce that other numbers beginning 012345678 are the same
length.

To which my reply was trying to point out that there's little commonality
between the *different* numbers that I call. This may be a UK v US thing:
the numbers I call frequently are in several area codes, and even those in
the same area code will be in different DG groups (the 56 in the above
example). That's what I meant by "little similarity".

Perhaps Peter can re-explain his suggestion, since I clearly didn't
understand it.

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