Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age

Posted by timothy on from the imagine-that dept.

azoblue writes with this teaser from Ars Technica, presenting a tempting suggestion for online consolidation: "E-mail, IM, Facebook, phones—what if all of these ways to reach you over a network could be condensed into a single, unique number? The ENUM proposal aims to do just that, by giving everyone a single phone number that maps to all of their identifiers. Here's how it works, and why it isn't already widely used."

3 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. It's not the same by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jenny, I got your number
    I'm gonna make you mine
    Jenny, I got your number
    86.75.30.9

    --
    John
    1. Re:It's not the same by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jenny, I got your number
      I'm gonna make you mine
      Jenny, I got your number
      3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf

    2. Re:It's not the same by BetterSense · · Score: 5, Funny

      Rikki don't lose that number
      You don't want to call nobody else
      Send it off in an email, to yourself