[enum-wg] repost: Proposal for non-geographic ENUM E.164 UPTS for the general public

I think Chris's idea is good in principle, though I'm not sure about
its practicality. As Patrik says, use of non-geographic E.164 numbers
touches on awkward corners of national telephony regulations. I think
the ITU would take a dim view of this too. And that's aside from them
being uneasy (unable?) about issuing a chunk of E.164 number space to
an organisation that isn't an ITU member. IIUC ITU directly controls
E.164 numbers used for Universal Personal Telephony, so they could
well be touchy about another entrant into that space.

There would also be a conflict of interest given that RIPE NCC is
already operating the registry for e164.arpa. So if the NCC was to
apply for a non-geographic E.164 code and get it, this would probably
need to be administered by a separate organisation from that running
the e164.arpa registry.