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Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 03:26:42 JST Wikipedia

After seeing a post about someone who is running a fediverse instance on an ip6.arpa domain, we've gone down the .arpa top-level domain rabbit hole this evening!
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  Wikipedia (wikipedia@wikis.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 03:33:20 JST Wikipedia
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  For example, did you know:
  - ARPA here is a backronym for "Address and Routing Parameter Area"?
  - e164.arpa allows you to "retrieve information associated with telephone numbers through the ENUM[0] service"
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  [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENUM
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    Telephone number mapping
    
    Telephone number mapping is a system of unifying the international telephone number system of the public switched telephone network with the Internet addressing and identification name spaces. Internationally, telephone numbers are systematically organized by the E.164 standard, while the Internet uses the Domain Name System (DNS) for linking domain names to IP addresses and other resource information. Telephone number mapping systems provide facilities to determine applicable Internet communications servers responsible for servicing a given telephone number using DNS queries. The most prominent facility for telephone number mapping is the E.164 number to URI mapping (ENUM) standard. It uses special DNS record types to translate a telephone number into a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or IP address that can be used in Internet communications. Rationale Being able to dial telephone numbers the way customers have come to expect is considered crucial for the convergence of classic telephone service (PSTN) and Internet telephony (Voice over IP, VoIP), and for the development of new IP multimedia services. The...
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