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Article could be extended usefully to cover IP telephone directories

Good overview article.

What Skype does well is to provide a searchable telephone directory and user profiles. But of course Skype is proprietory.

If VoIP is to really take off, contacting people needs to be as easy as using email addresses or typing URLs rather than entering IP nos..

I looked into this a year or more ago but no one system seemed likely to become universal. e164 is a free service that was trying to be open: http://www.e164.org/ to map a real world phone number to an Email address, website, VoIP addresses, etc.

It would be useful to know what the current situation is and the best way forward. Meanwhile I'm still using Skype.

Alan

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