AW: ENUM trials in general

["Stastny Richard" <]

Hi Jim,

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	Von: Jim Reid [
	    
	    
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	Gesendet: Di 25.02.2003 14:14 
	An: Stastny Richard 
	Cc: Sabine Dolderer/Denic; Michael Haberler; axel.pawlik@localhost carsten@localhost daniel.karrenberg@localhost enum-trials@localhost marco.bernardi@localhost richard@localhost 
	Betreff: Re: ENUM trials in general 
	
	

	I am not convinced of the need for whois (either in general or for
	ENUM in particular). There is general consensus within the UK ENUM
	Group that a whois functionality is neither necessary nor desirable.
	I suppose this could change in light of experience gained during the
	trial.

Maybe you missed my citation about TS 102 172



		For ENUM, I think that ultimately DNS hosting will be done by the
		telco or equivalent entity that's responsible for some number block.

Huh?

Now it seems you missed at lot of the recent discussion. In UK you have

numberblocks hosted by telcos, interesting, especially all the big ported single

number blocks.

regards

Richard

	 

	 

	
	If that's true, this entity can be the initial point of contact for
	any DNS technical issues which crop up. I wonder how often whois gets
	genuinely used for that purpose today? And for ENUM, there will be
	cases where people will want to register a domain and NOT have a whois
	entry at all: an unlisted phone number perhaps. I believe that some
	regulators can get uptight about providing a reverse lookup capability
	on telephone numbers.