ENUM Timeline (continued)

Interesting open questions (as described in [Strålmark 2004]):

Should the state have a permanent operational role (as opposed to simply an administrative role)
important that the subscriber with a given E.164 number also control the associated ENUM domain name {Who is responsible for maintaining this synchronization and validating changes?}
Who finances the Tier 1 registry?
Need for regulations? Self-regulation? …
Privacy: need E.164 subscriber’s permission to list them in the DNS
Are there business opportunities?
Will ENUM be successful?
…

Slide Notes

Joakim Strålmark, “The National Post and Telecom Agency in Sweden (PTS): A Regulator Perspective on ENUM”, RIPE 47 Meeting, 28 January 2004 http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/pesentations/ripe47-enum-sweden.pdf Links to an external site.

Transcript

[slide226] Why? So why do you use ENUM? [student answers: I don't have an online phone here, so I use Skype with ENUM.] That's right. Because now you can look up and you can find the number [and] go from Skype into the telephony world. But the base problem was no one ever figured out who should administer it? Who should pay for it? Who finances the tier 1 registry? What regulations there are? Privacy issues? Are there businesses? It was a great protocol, great idea, small number of users. So a lot of effort went into it.