> 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.
