[enum-wg] DUNDi by Mark Spencer

Aside from the technical aspect (I did not try to use the protocol 
myself yet) I cannot help noticing that once again technology moves 
ahead quickly to solve any barriers imposed on delegation and 
administration of E164 number space for VoIP.  The acceptance of VoIP 
addressing of E164 space can depend on formal bodies (like ENUM model) 
or in this case by the fact that the installed base of Asterisk 
gateways is simply able to deploy an alternative without waiting for 
any green light.

As even ENUM acceptance was driven by Asterisk solution, I cannot see 
what will stop DUNDI  becoming a valid alternative. Perhaps the fact 
that in place of, or next to, DNS servers one will need to use Asterisk 
servers and routing of E164 numbers to non E164 addresses will not be 
trivial.

Adrian

On Oct 20, 2004, at 1:04 AM, Carsten Schiefner wrote:

> Has anybody already digested this to some extent?
>
> Distributed Universal Number Discovery
> http://www.dundi.com/
>
> An article on it has been published today at:
> http://voxilla.com/voxstory107-nested-order0-threshold0.html
>
> Best,
>
> 	-C.