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RFC 8396
Managing, Ordering, Distributing, Exposing, and Registering Telephone Numbers (MODERN): Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Framework,July 2018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8396
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Abstract
The functions of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) arerapidly migrating to the Internet. This is generating newrequirements for many traditional elements of the PSTN, includingTelephone Numbers (TNs). TNs no longer serve simply as telephonerouting addresses: they are now identifiers that may be used byInternet-based services for a variety of purposes including sessionestablishment, identity verification, and service enablement. Thisproblem statement examines how the existing tools for allocating andmanaging telephone numbers do not align with the use cases of theInternet environment and proposes a framework for Internet-basedservices relying on TNs.
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