[enum-wg] DUNDi by Mark Spencer

At 11:16 PM 10/19/2004, Adrian Georgescu wrote:

>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.

well look ... DUNDI is a very very clever approach to the problem of TN to 
URI translation but I think this really has application only in the 
enterprise private dial space where the number of peer to peer nodes is 
manageable.

this is not going to scale to a global solution


>As even ENUM acceptance was driven by Asterisk solution,

well as ENUM co-chair I wouldnt say that

>I cannot see what will stop DUNDI  becoming a valid alternative.

Its a very very useful tool in specific application environments IMHO thats 
all.

>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


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