IP: ETSI clashes with Net architects over numbering

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:40:33 +0900
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: ajp () glocom ac jp (Adam Peake)
> Subject: article: ETSI clashes with Net architects over numbering
>
> ETSI clashes with Net architects over numbering
> By Kenneth Cukier
> 06 September 1999
>
> A proposal by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
> that telephone numbers and IP addresses be harmonized is being studied
> by the Net's central coordinating body - the Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). But the idea has been rejected by
> the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) - the Internet's most senior
> engineers - as demonstrating "a serious lack of understanding of
> Internet protocols and operations."
>
> See
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>
> Adam Peake
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