[enum-wg] ITU: debate over User-ENUM administration

John,

> I wonder how you (or we) should define "progress"?  We start
> with an area that was originally agreed to be an IETF
> responsibility with TSB participation on
> authorization/validation issues.  It then "evolves", at SG2
> insistence, to something that is assumed to involve at least
> some topics we should discuss together.  And now we have
> attained the pinnacle of a discussion within SG2,
> apparently-secret from the outside world, based on documents
> that are not generally available to the IETF and the ENUM user
> community.

ITU, as the international _treaty_ organization, is responsible for global
coordination of the E.164 numbering. ENUM is the mapping E.164 numbers into
the Internet domain names. I'm not surprised that ITU is interested in ENUM,
as the part of E164 numbering. Nobody is objecting to the fact that E.164
numbers are coordinated (at the global level) by ITU. 

Delegate of Syria submitted his contributions. It's his right. Every
government (Member State) or Sector Member can submit his contributions, and
the discussion can go forward. 

> And, of course, unless ITU-T SG2 is planning to disrupt the
> Internet by setting up an alternate root, their deciding on an
> ENUM TLD is only slightly more likely to be relevant than their
> passing a Recommendation that changes the speed of light.

ENUM is one of the key issues in the ITU work program 2005-2008. 
My intention is to inform the enum-wg that ITU is progressing in the
discussion on ENUM, as declared last year:
http://www.itu.int/itunews/manager/display.asp?lang=en&year=2004&issue=10&ip
age=agendaProgramme&ext=html 

Andrzej.