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But why do we still have phone numbers?
by amichail 1y ago
But why do we still have phone numbers?
- PaulHoule 1y agoWhy not? They are ergonomic (I can remember my phone number, you can easily type it in it) and won't be running out in the North American Numbering Plan at least until the 2050s: https://www.nanpa.com/reports/npa-reports https://www.nanpa.com/reports/npa-reports I guess IPv4 numbers have a similar number of digits and support a similar range, but attempts to make them location-portable have failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP IPv6 numbers are way too long. I guess you could have something DNS based but why?
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