• From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@g...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:46:06 +0100

Michael, hello.

On 5 Sep 2022, at 17:57, Michael Kay wrote:

> UK phone numbers are variable-length.

Fine -- then where I said '12', read 'up to 15' (which Wikipedia suggests is the ITU maximum).  The original point is not phone numbers, or about validation, but the general point about a hard-coded maximum length not necessarily being bad design.

Best wishes,

Norman


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164

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