POTS; was: Anyone here from Oregon USA to help with collection pickup?

[William Donzelli]

> So did mine.  Basically, I see three reasons to not give individuals
> individual phone numbers which stick to the individual.  One is that
> the individual -> phone number mapping is neither one-to-one

It somewhat looks like this is happening quite well in our cellphone
based society.

> two is the privacy and related concerns;

Is the snail mail system different in any way? These concerns can be
handled reasonably, even for the over-the-top privacy types.

> three is hat we don't know how to route
> even 1e9, much less 1e11, individual addresses worldwide

The cellphone guys are doing a pretty good job.

> when there's
> no topological hierarchy available to simplify the problem (note that
> both the large routing networks in operation today, the Internet and
> the PSTN, use hierarchical routing in some form).

There is still some hierarchy, but noweher near as there used to be.
Most of Notes on the Network is obsolete (or getting there fast).

--
Will