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I don't think this is very well-known, at least among people who haven't worked on telephony implementations (? I have no idea where this is commonly used). Nev

I don't think this is very well-known, at least among people who haven't worked on telephony implementations (? I have no idea where this is commonly used). Never in my life has someone asked me for my DID instead of my phone number. It's fairly plausible that the people working on this specification were unaware of this pre-existing acronym (which ranked after Defense In Depth, when I searched it), and just said "Oh, we're making Distributed IDentifiers. Let's call them DIDs! That's easy to remember." When used in verbal conversation, is it generally spelled out like CPU (dee eye dee), or said as a word like RAM (did)?

iamdave 8y ago
at the two telecom jobs in my past DID only got called a "DID" when specifically talking about configuring routes for DID or some other associated configuration. Even as telecom engineers unless that was the specific context the nomenclature was to call it a phone number all other times. Across separate companies. And yet ... ...you've got me wanting to pay attention to something; I'm migrating from a public telco/PTSN job to The world of hosted pbx and managed voice in two weeks and I wonder if that linguistic quirk translates between the two types of environment.