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have another one: replace short phone numbers with ipv6 addresses. prefix owned by telco, customers can generate random suffixes. hand out random numbers every
by the8472 3y ago
have another one: replace short phone numbers with ipv6 addresses. prefix owned by telco, customers can generate random suffixes. hand out random numbers every time you need to provide a number and delete them if you no longer need to receive calls from the other end. The contact you gave to the shipping company for your new washing machine? doesn't need to exist longer than a few weeks.
The numbers can be passed around as QR codes or generated by an app to be pasted into forms.
- JohnFen 3y agoWouldn't making phone numbers so long be a problem? It would be a problem for me.
- the8472 3y agoDepends on your processes. Digital ones should handle them fine. In person you could use those good old business cards (each card now with its own number!). Over a phone call... well, the other side should already have that number on the phone and can save it.
- JohnFen 3y agoI was thinking in terms of remembering and manually dialing them. Perhaps I'm the only person left who still does that, though.
- plagiarist 3y agoI love it. I love that people could just cease calls from stalkers or illegal collections calls. I'd certainly delete old numbers used by people I'd want to be able to contact me, that's a bit of a downside.