[enum-wg] Follow up on Jim Reid's presentation today

On Apr 27, 2006, at 15:34, Carsten Schiefner wrote:

> I have a question in relation to your presentation: on the second  
> slide it reads "Tier-1 registry appointed around October" - so my  
> understanding is that UKEC, UKEG's successor, will not have any  
> operational business, but will act as the delegee for 4.4.e164.arpa  
> and have operations outsourced. Is that correct?

Not quite though that's the general idea. The government's attitude  
is ENUM is an industry matter and it's best run by industry. It  
should be self-regulating too: codes of conduct, accreditation, broad  
stakeholder participation, that sort of thing. The government's role  
is to be a facilitator and to make sure ENUM operates in the UK in  
the broad public interest with appropriate safeguards for fair  
competition, consumer protection and the like.

The government will delegate (not in a DNS sense) UK ENUM oversight  
to UKEC. UKEG will develop policy, codes of conduct, handle  
accreditation, deal with complaints and so forth. Its major task will  
be to select a Tier1 registry operator and to decide how that  
contract is awarded. The general concept for UKEC will be comparable  
to how ICSTIS, a self-regulating industry body, oversees the  
provision of premium-rate telephone services in the UK. It's  
conceivable, but probably unlikely,  that the Tier 1 registry  
contract could be awarded to an organisation that then chooses to  
outsource registry operations to a company providing that service.   
If UKEC fails to exercise proper oversight, the government could  
decide that some other entity should take charge of ENUM in the UK.

Of course these are my personal opinions and must not be viewed as an  
official statement by UKEG/UKEC or Her Majesty's Government or anyone  
else.