System and method for allowing communication between networks having incompatible addressing formats

A telecommunications infrastructure, comprising:

• a first network having a limited address format;
• a second network having an expanded address format that includes non-compliant addresses;
• and
• a system for allowing said first network to transmit a message to a non-compliant reply-to address in said second network, including:
• a compliant address generator that generates a spurious surrogate address employable within said first network in lieu of said non-compliant reply-to address, said spurious surrogate address complying with said format but dissociated from addresses of said first network, and
• a database manager, coupled to said compliant address generator, that stores a record containing said non-compliant reply-to address and said spurious surrogate address in an associated database to allow said non-compliant reply-to address to be substituted for said spurious surrogate address to permit said message to be transmitted to said second network.