[AusNOG] ISDN shutdown 31 May 2022

[Geoff Huston]

https://museum.media.org/invisible.net/project/tpc.int.html

Carl Malamud was behind this in 1993 - you did not need to register anything - the entire E.164 number space was mapped into tpc.int Given that at the time the phone companies were making almost all their long distance revenues from faxes it was an early effort to bypass their monopoly. We ran a fax printing service for +61 at the time and we accepted incoming faxes and resent it as a “real” fax to the domestic number. We (Peter Elford and myself) thought it was mildly amusing at the time.

Geoff

> On 17 Jan 2022, at 8:46 pm, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:
> 
> On 13/1/22 18:11, Karl Auer wrote:
> 
>> Internet fax would be nice - fax machines with publicly reachable IP
>> addresses, protected by SSL, that just print whatever page is sent to
>> them. Some form of authentication would be essential of course :-)
> 
> Back in the dark ages there was
> 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2305>
> 
> and I think Marshall T Rose run a domain where you could register your fax machines, label was the phone number if I recall correctly.
> 
> Mark.
> 
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