mark lewis
2010-11-04 16:35:29 UTC
ml> FTS-5001 is the document you seek... specifically Section H, very
ml> last line...
AF> Thanks!
:)
AF>> I maintain binkd nodelist compiler and it's currently doesn't
AF>> parse phone fields for IP addresses. I'd wish to add this feature
AF>> if there's a standard for it. If not, I'll probably add it as
AF>> "non-standard" option.
ml> well, one needs to also get everyone else in the same page and in the
ml> same boat... some "out there" (mostly in Z2) erroneously use 00-
ml> instead of 000-...
AF> AFAIK, "00-" scheme is used with INA flag only and only
AF> "00-00-000000" numbers are used, so they are not useful anyway. I
AF> used regular expression ",00-[1-9-]+" search thru nodelist and it
AF> didn't return anything. This means all phones beginning with "00-"
AF> are containing only zeroes and dashes.
right... the problem is/was that during the development of this method, 000- as
the first four characters of the phone number were supposed to indicate that
the next characters were an IP address or a domain name but those working on
this left for the internet due to numerous reasons... some were fidonet
politics and some folk doing everything they could to prevent such
implementation while promoting their own ideas and similar shenanigans... sadly
we were left with partial implementations, broken ones, and several good ones
that never got further than some code implementations or possibly some small
documentation but not both and neither fully implemented :? :(
AF> Anyway, I'll make a smart check. :)
ml> another problem is that the Z2C filters all such and converts it to
ml> "-Unpublished-" :(
AF> Well, I have full nodelist which isn't filtered. :)
;)
)\/(ark
ml> last line...
AF> Thanks!
:)
AF>> I maintain binkd nodelist compiler and it's currently doesn't
AF>> parse phone fields for IP addresses. I'd wish to add this feature
AF>> if there's a standard for it. If not, I'll probably add it as
AF>> "non-standard" option.
ml> well, one needs to also get everyone else in the same page and in the
ml> same boat... some "out there" (mostly in Z2) erroneously use 00-
ml> instead of 000-...
AF> AFAIK, "00-" scheme is used with INA flag only and only
AF> "00-00-000000" numbers are used, so they are not useful anyway. I
AF> used regular expression ",00-[1-9-]+" search thru nodelist and it
AF> didn't return anything. This means all phones beginning with "00-"
AF> are containing only zeroes and dashes.
right... the problem is/was that during the development of this method, 000- as
the first four characters of the phone number were supposed to indicate that
the next characters were an IP address or a domain name but those working on
this left for the internet due to numerous reasons... some were fidonet
politics and some folk doing everything they could to prevent such
implementation while promoting their own ideas and similar shenanigans... sadly
we were left with partial implementations, broken ones, and several good ones
that never got further than some code implementations or possibly some small
documentation but not both and neither fully implemented :? :(
AF> Anyway, I'll make a smart check. :)
ml> another problem is that the Z2C filters all such and converts it to
ml> "-Unpublished-" :(
AF> Well, I have full nodelist which isn't filtered. :)
;)
)\/(ark