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From: stoltz@eng.sun.com (Ben Stoltz)
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Subject: Person Numbers
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I would like to see some discussion on "Person Numbers".

In the brave new world, people may have the option of calling me
instead of my phone. Or, they may want to call my fax, even if that
means the fax in the hotel where I am staying instead of the fax
machine where I work.

To make this scheme work, the calling party dials a person number. I
would like the person number to use a different dialing plan than the
North American dialing plan (1-AAA-XXX-XXXX). Maybe 012-PPPPPPPPPP?

New dial plan, everybody gets a whole bunch of phone numbers.  To
differentiate different addressable things, such as fax or answering
machine or me, a sub-address is also required: 012-PPPPPPPPPP,SS. How
does a person specify the subaddress?

If you were going to implement this today, without TPC help, how would
you do it?

Maybe	dial an 800 number
	computer answers
	dial more digits
	computer resolves number to a NA dial plan number and then
	computer transfers the call.

Does ISDN make any of this any easier? How does the computer know
where to route calls?


Ben Stoltz		stoltz@Eng.Sun.COM
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  (415)336-1733