[cooperation-wg] Re: [enum-wg] market potential/future for public ENUM

On 2 Jun 2011, at 09:07, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> Only regulation can unlock this situation. That forces E.164 holders  
> to either have a DNS that people can enter whatever they want, or  
> let third parties run DNS for the E.164 numbers in question.

True. But, playing Devil's Advocate, why would a regulator want to  
intervene?

I expect they'd feel there was no point because the market has already  
made its decision about public ENUM. That would also get them off the  
hook for regulatory oversight of the Tier-1 delegation and name space:  
registry contract, codes of conduct, SLAs, etc. If you were the  
regulator, what path would you choose? :-)