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Thu Oct 16 19:35:30 UTC 2003

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis
> <mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a good one, when was the last tiema  telco asked any of us, or
> > anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment?  or LERG?
> >
> This isn't necessarily a great analogy for this situation.  It is likely
> Verisign thinks of themselves as the phone company in this case and us
> as the consumers that don't know.

Besides, the FCC and the phone companies frequently ask the public for
comment concerning the North American Numbering Plan administration.  They
also act and change based on those comments.

Unlike the NSI situation, the FCC has changed NANP administrators several
times, and generally issues a 1 year contract with an option to renew for
successive years.  Its also clear the NANPA doesn't "own" the north
american numbering plan or the databases used to administer it.