These phone number formats come from the ITU's standards -- E.164 to be specific. You can read up on it here:
http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=folders&lang=e&parent=T-REC-E.164 Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>There appears to be a problem in that only US/Canada formatted telephone >>numbers are accepted, and some sort of additional check (valid areacode, >>etc.) might also be done. >> > >It's not a US/Canada format but instead some weird format that these two >registries decided to require. The format confuses many users with the >end result being an invalid phone number written to these two registries. > >There was a lot of discussion about the format on the discuss or dev lists >back around September or October 2001. > >
