Universal service; equitable availability; social good funding and public policy objectives

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Some very widely used identifiers such as telephone numbers and possibly IP addresses may be subject to legal, regulatory, and contributory requirements designed to assure fair, equitable distribution of identifiers or associated funding regimes designed to promote universal service and other social goods or policy objectives such as geographical distribution balances. Identifiers associated with businesses, radio or internet use, for example, often have regimes that provide for administrative funding for the associated support infrastructure and its administration. These objectives also tend to enhance the necessity for accuracy of identifier attribute information.