Re: Comments on RFC2806bis
Henning Schulzrinne <[email protected]> Tue, 21 May 2002 13:14:47 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.iptel |
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| Organization | Columbia University |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I've changed things so that all digit strings can contain hex digits. This seems simplest and least likely to cause future problems. In general, I don't think syntactic checking of phone numbers buys much, given that most syntactically legal random numbers are probably not valid. Yu, James wrote: > I agree that it is better to use hex digits also for global-number so that > there is no need to modify the RFC if E.164 is changed. Allowing hex > digits does not mean all numbers are valid. Even if we only allow decimal > digits for country codes, those country code values, if not yet assigned by > ITU-T, are invalid. Suggest to use hex digits and let the node decide > whether a number/prefix is valid or not for routing. >