[VoiceOps] Help Requested: E.123 Intl Formatting in Google libphonenumber

[Oren Yehezkely]

Peter,

I thought during all those years that the standard is called E.164.
I also thought that a phone number has no spaces or dashes. These are only
added to help humans read the phone numbers.

We also used the libphonenumber and I think it is great to help us
standardize.
It works for all countries so I am not sure what's missing.
I am sure you can add anything that you want after you normalize the number
using the function.

Thanks,
Oren




On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, 22:04 Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:

> Hey all --
>
> I hope and trust that most of you are fans of standards.
>
> I need some help convincing Google's libphonenumber team to follow the
> published ITU E.123 Number Formatting standard for +1 NANPA, Ecuador, and
> Argentina.
>
> tl;dr -- Please comment in support here:
>
> https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/221095104
>
>
> Long Version:
>
> I love standards. They are often unambiguous and organize all of us around
> a common understanding of how we are going to interoperate. Everything we
> do in our daily work can be tied back to a standard:
>
>      - TCP/IP, hell the whole OSI Model
>      - SIP, RTP
>      - ITU E.164, E.123, SS7, ISDN, DSL
>      - DNS, Email, TLS/SSL
>
> It seems weird that an International company like Google, who practically
> exists ONLY BECAUSE these standards existed for Google to emerge from, is
> being picky about implementing a phone number formatting standard published
> in 2008.
>
> The crux:
>      168 countries use spaces in their International Format
>        2 countries outside of +1 NANPA, Ecuador and Argentina have dashes
>       25 countries in +1 NANPA all use +1 NPA-NXX-XXXX as the International
>            Format
>
> ITU E.123 states in 9.1:
>
>      Only spaces should be used in an international number.
>
> Thus the correct output would be '+1 NPA NXX XXXX' for the INTERNATIONAL
> format.
>
> I'm all for using (NPA) NXX-XXXX or NPA-NXX-XXXX for any of the other
> formats.
>
> I'm just trying to get support from the community to get rid of Dashes
> entirely in the INTERNATIONAL Format of phone numbers.
>
> Your support and comment is appreciated.
>
> Beckman
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> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
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> https://www.angryox.com/
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