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

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> > My point is not that your idea is wrong, but that you have to take
> > into account a number of different issues...
>
>certainly. i hope this is the right place for a discussion for these 
>issues, and for finding good solutions for identified problems. :)
>
> > Can you be more specific on what the rules are for E.164 numbers in
> > your neck of the woods?
>
>that's germany. +49 numbers are in their regions fully portable between 
>pstn providers. currently large regional blocks are reallocated by voip 
>gateway providers to voip-users. so a voip-user from e.g. dresden can have 
>a number from e.g. duesseldorf, hamburg, berlin, munich - or all of them. 
>that's really ugly but voip providers actually have no big choice. there 
>is a 'region' reserved for non-regional (in the end of course still 
>national) numbers (+4932), but this is currently discussed and it's 
>unlikely that this prefix will be useably anytime soon. also, there are 
>strong doubts that this prefix will be freely available to voip-providers, 
>the current discussion shows that there will probably be dependencies and 
>drawbacks especially for voip.

Ah ..just like the US.   We hear lots of barking by the US State Govt ( aka 
your Lander)  on the allocation of "their numbers" by Vonage to out of 
region customers but the truth is there is nothing they can do about it. 
We're recovering so many phone numbers now from the system no one cares how 
they get allocated any more.

I'm pretty sure I'll live to see Geographic portability in the US.  Its 
technically its a trivial exercise.


>kind regards,
>
>         Chris Heinze


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