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> Is providing the ability to assign numbers to people instead of to > locations really that hard? Is it really so much easier for Internet > domains to do it? Or is this just an oligarchy at work? :) A phone number is more analogous to an IP address than a domain name. If you move, you'll have a different ISP, and you won't get to keep your old IP address. Your domain name, however, can be pointed to any IP address you like. It's that extra layer of indirection -- the domain being resolved to an IP -- that lets Internet domains be moved so easily. It's also partly a historical issue. The phone system is layed out geographically, because in the days of mechanical switches that was the only reasonable way to do it. Each area code represents a certain area of the country, and each exchange (the first three digits of the local number) represents a particular central office. If you're outside the area covered by that central office, there's no way to get a direct line run to you (unless you use forwarding, or something like VOIP.) Billing is based on this, too. If people could move numbers around willy-nilly, you'd never know if you were making a long-distance call or not. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users