[enum-wg] Kapsch CarrierCom first company to be reached with ENUM

At 07:02 PM 10/6/2004, Stastny Richard wrote:

> >But WTH is a "public (DIAL) SIP URI"? Just to continue to be on the same
> >page here as I never came across this term before...

I think I need to get T-Shirts made up here...
DIAL URI !
NO URI !
NO SIP!


>I think the term has been brought up by Henry Sinnreich. considering
>the currently many providers provide VoIP services in a walled garden
>(.e.g. 3GPP, TISPAN NGN, even Skype), but they do not provide you
>with a public SIP URI, so you cannot be reached (dialed) on the Internet.

Henry and I have been preaching this at fine VoIP conferences world wide.

The issuance of a SIP URI by a SIP service provider is a fundamental 
definition of a real SIP VoIP service.

Now think of someone selling you a email service but does not offer you a 
email address.

What I find totally amazing is that the VoIP service providers in the US 
and Europe do not understand the "sticky" nature of naming and 
addressing.  How many millions of AOL users stay with the service just 
because they wont change email addresses. DT....FT,  BT  certainly must see 
the same behaivor fon their consumer ISP products etc.

I heard that SIP service providers in Europe wouldn't consider 
confederating using private ENUM because they thought other providers would 
poach on each others customers. This is total madness.

But what else is new.  ATT seems to be clueless about this as well..we 
heard at the SIP summit in Chicago that Vonage was "considering" giving out 
URI's to its customers ..but no announcement as of yet.

This is the opportunity for the biggest land grab by VoIP service providers 
ever by locking customers into SIP URI's but they seem to want to shoot 
themselves in the foot by not offering real internet SIP addressing.

Mind boggling, madness, just plain stupid ..almost as crazy as well ... 
invading some middle east country without allies ...


>So Henry says (and I agree), if you do not have a SIP URI, you do
>not have VoIP.
>
>And especially on an ENUM related list you may add: if you do not have
>a SIP URI, you cannot use ENUM as well.

precisely ...


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