ENUM for Google Android

Ray Bellis of Nominet UK (the UK Tier 1 operator for +44) released an open source Android ENUM dialer application (called “enumdroid”):

http://code.google.com/p/enumdroid/ Links to an external site.

Thus every time you enter a full E.164 number with a “+”, the application does a DNS lookup to see if there is an ENUM mapping - so that you can take advantage of other means of contact this entity, i.e., e-mail, PSTN, SIP, SMS, tel, voice, web, XMPP.

It can also get the “loc” ENUM service information telling you the geolocation associated with the number (if this information exists).

By default, it uses resolver1.opendns.com and resolver2.opendns.com as the DNS server.

Transcript

[slide236] But there are clients you can get for ENUM. And there is one for Android. Everytime you put a "+" in, it does a DNS lookup to see if there is an ENUM mapping, if so, then you can take advantage of it to send a PSTN, SIM, SMS, voice, whatever you want.