6.What is the chief difference between the IP addressing scheme and the U.S. telephone numbering scheme?

Question

Hello everyone,

Can anyone help me with this question? I tried to think about it alot but I couldnt come up with an answer. Hope someone out there can explain an answer. Thank you

Answer 1

Basically ... the IP scheme is mostly based on what network devices (subnets, masks) you are associated with ... the latter digits are arbitrary & for internal identification.

The telephone scheme is mostly based on what geographic location you are in. The latter digits here are also arbitrary.

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Answer 2

In another way of describing it... Telephone numbers are geographically allocated, whereas IP addressing is more topologically allocated.