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by raverbashing 3998 days ago
> It goes hand in hand with the fact that there's no reliable system for identifying the origin of an incoming call.

Probably because of legacy issues

In the same way you don't know the internal IP of a connection to a webserver

Caller ID is sent by the initiating exchange, and it is not used for the backwards connection

See the ISDN specs for more details