Re: Comments on RFC2806bis

At 12:54 pm -0400 23/5/02, [email protected] wrote:
>
>I hope I can put this issue to bed once and for all. There seems to 
>be this strange story going around about how 43-22 should be blocked 
>from outside Austria while 43-1 is allowed and both forms designate 
>the same phone if dialed inside Austria. This is false!
>
>Please check the web site www.sauerhof.at which is one of the hotels 
>in the famous resort town near Vienna of Baden bei Wien. It clearly 
>shows that their telephone number is +43 2252 412510. I have found 
>others of this form.
>
>The "22" following the country code for Austria is not invalid or to 
>be blocked by anyone. It is the first part of a perfectly good 
>4-digit city code.
>
>If there is some other local dialing plan in Vienna or Austria that 
>uses "22" for some other purpose, it can not appear in a conflicting 
>position in the dialing string and can not be confused with being a 
>part of the international or national number.
>
>On the other hand, if such a code is used in the local dialing plan 
>for some special purpose, SIP must figure out a way to handle it. 
>But don't treat it as a part of the subscribers number.

To which I reply::

OK, I admit it - I mistyped the code - the old code is 222, not 22. 
Sorry about that.

For the rest, see Richard earlier Stastny's post (it's much shorter than mine).

atb,
   Lawrence
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