[enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Hello Rui,

Everyone (commercial/non-commercial, organisation/private person) who
operates a correctly configured SIP server is for this an operator if you
ask me. We are working in our test environment with nrenum.net and enum.
After this first 2 work as we want we will also add e164.org.

As long as they mention correct information to call back (read correct phone
number) we will be happy to accept calls from anyone. For outgoing calls we
are testing it and once this goes as planned we will also use
nrenum/enum/e164.org for this.

As long as the number is within the earlier mentioned trees we would be
happy to connect directly (where possible) or accept connections. For
operators we would also be happy to have some kind of "peering" arrangement,
and this could go as far as redirecting calls from them that we get from
other peers (if both want that).

With kind regards,

Mark Scholten
Stream Service
SinnerG BV

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directly.

-----Original Message-----
From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
Rui Ribeiro
Sent: dinsdag 7 juli 2009 23:25
To: enum-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Hi Mark,

Let's say that I'm a user (not a company, even less an operator). I
have a SIP phone that supports ENUM direcly (it queries the golden
tree, understand the registers flags, queries the DNS based on the
URI, and makes the call). ENUM redirects to a user that is registred
on your server. Would you accept the calls? (note... there are no
costs neither a internconection contract).

What if it was the other way around? Would you redirect your calls to
a URI with whom you don't have any relashionship? Would you even trie
to deliver the call, and redirect it through PSTN if failed?

> We would be happy to create SIP connections to other VoIP operators. But
it
> totally depends on the interconnection costs (if there would be no fee to
> call to SIP accounts on their server, they could call for free to SIP
> accounts on our platform ofcourse).

Who applies to "voip operaton" on your view?
Could a non profit organization with thousands of numbers? [as NREN,
Universitie, Hospital network, ...]
Could it be a profit organization? (bank, insurance company, ...)
Or only a "operator" fully registred.

What is your view on initiatives like e164.org and nrenum.net?
Do/Would you deliver calls to destinations pointed by these two trees?

Rui Ribeiro
racribeiro at gmail.com