I never knew that it is in the works by NAD (National Association of the Deaf) is working on that to make it possible by proposing it to FCC (Federal Communications Commission). As of right now at 10/27/2006, the video phone (VP) telephone numbers are proxy numbers that represents the IP (Internet Protocol) numbers of your computer. Why not use IP ? We can't because many of those IPs are changing constantly so its making us harder to dial to the other VP users so instead we are using the proxy telephone number to represent the IPs.

As of Grant Laird Jr and my case:

I do use the MY IP Relay number that the hearing number can call the direct number to reach me via AIM which is primarily used for the business purposes while I also have the VP number where my friends can reach me and I have a real telephone number that is assigned by AT&T/SBC for my fax so I have 3 numbers in total...so yeah its crazy!

What the NAD is proposing is that to convert the VP from the proxy into a real telephone number which would reduce the number of the telephone numbers to remember and would be much easier for all of us to reach one other with one lesser number!

While Grant Laird suggested an excellent idea about the skype-style service where you can prioritize the services like for example: If the VP is off, then the next step is going to the AIM, but if the AIM is not online then leave a message via email like a voice mail for hearing but is the "voice mail" for the Deafies, which will be administered by the 3rd party company. That would make my job as Computer Technician for Rescuecom hella more easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gosh, I do want to have one number instead of remembering all 3 numbers, so please support NAD's proposal by filling in at http://www.nad.org/fccnumberaction, if you are interested to see it to happen!