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    <title>Unable to Complete the Call as Dialed</title>
    <summary type='xhtml'><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/icann_approves_customized_top_level_domains/'>Tim Bray</a>: <em>I’m not sure whether this <a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/icann_approves_customized_top_level_domains/'>free-TLD</a> idea is a good or bad thing in the big picture</em></p>
<p>Consider the fun that will occur when existing software is presented with email addresses that contain non-latin characters.</p></div></summary>
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<p><a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/icann_approves_customized_top_level_domains/'><cite>Tim Bray</cite></a>: <em>I’m not sure whether this <a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/icann_approves_customized_top_level_domains/'>free-TLD</a> idea is a good or bad thing in the big picture</em></p>
<p>When I was a young’un, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#History'>telephone area codes in North America</a> had a zero or a one a the middle digit, and none of the exchanges in such area codes had such.  This enabled telephone switching equipment to detect whether the number you were dialing was a local or long distance number without requiring a one to be dialed first.  Eventually, phone numbers became scarce, and this was ditched.</p>
<p>This meant that the <abbr title='Private Branch eXchange'>PBX</abbr> equipment in a number of locations were unable to make calls to these new numbers, and had to be replaced.</p>
<p>The modern equivalent of this may be <a href='http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html'>email addresses</a>.  Consider the fun that will occur when existing software is presented with email addresses that contain non-latin characters.</p></div></content>
    <updated>2008-06-26T20:42:00-04:00</updated>
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