RE: ITU's H.350 and ENUM

[Richard Shockey <]

At 03:51 PM 9/10/2003 +0200, Stastny Richard wrote:

> Hi folks,
> There is really something very wierd going on. I took some time to dig 
> into and found
> the following info:
Really ... Gary Steve was there any SG2 input to this thing ... this is 
totally wierd that a ITU WG would propose a totally different numbering 
scheme here in conflict with E.164 principals.. .

Of course ,u initial reaction here was

A. this is H.323  ... as in , so what. OK I'm a SIP bigot ..

B. a X.500 like directory .. been there done that , a guaranteed loser.


> ViDeNet (Video Developing Network) is setting up the so-called
> "H.323 Global Dialling Scheme (GDS)".
>
> This is currently a wild mixture
> of a private numbering and dialing plan, containing of
> 1.an international access code '00', also called
> THE WORLD GATEKEEPER PREFIX (very bombastic)
> 2.the E.164 Country code (the real one)
> 3. An organisational prefix?? (OP) -choose what you like e.g:
> (Many national research organizations follow the telephone
> number system in their country and use their area code and
> organizational telephone exchange prefix. For instance,  SURFnet's OP is 
> 302305.
> 4.an Endpoint Number (EN)
>
> This is all set up by a Numerical Addressing Space Management Team
> Working Group (NASM) and implemented
> in a ViDeNet Root Level Architecture set up with Gatekeepers.
>
> At least ENUM and DNS is mentioned in the scope of NASM
>
> NASM is responsible the management of ViDeNet numerical address space. 
> This group designs the numerical address space and supporting routing 
> schemes, including E.164int integration, hierarchical and flat structures, 
> with particular emphasis on the root level and top tier architectures. Of 
> particular importance is the alignment of existing h.323 addressing to 
> E.164-like structures, in order to prepare the way for an eventual 
> migration toward full DNS-based dialing, ENUM and related numerical 
> address translation schemes.
>
> Sofar ITU-T SG16:
>
> At the same time SG13 is sending a liasion to SG2 AND SG16:
> (TD122 (WP 1/2) Liasion on Videoconferencing Networks.
> attached to SG13 Documents:
> COM 13 - D353 (WP 2/13) - A proposal for launching research on 
> videoconferencing services network
> COM 13 - D356 (WP2/13) - Draft recommendation of a general description of 
> videoconferencing services networks
> both from China Telecom and Huawei Technologies.
>
> In D356 a numbering plan is proposed (at least not containing an
> World Gatekeeper Access code :-) and also not a choose as you like
> Organizational Prefix, but instead an domestic access code.
> (Regulators, watch out and free up some domestic numbering space,
> to profide space for 100 Million H.323 Video terminals per country -
> and the same for SIP). Hey, what about technology independance?
> At least this proposal could be compatible with E.164
>
> Both ideas are quite new, because neither a prefix nor an acces code can
> be part of an E.164 number.
>
> I attach below some excepts what I found sofar:
>
> have fun
>
> I consider this development at least very interesting in context with ENUM

curious but fundamentally irrelevant..IMHO


http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/categories/internetNamesAndAddresses/2003/09/04.html#a174

Regards,



> Regards,
>
>         -C.

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