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

[Co-chair hat OFF]

Rich, all -

Richard Shockey wrote:
> Remember there are two form of ENUM .. the 'classic ENUM" of RFC 3761 and
> e164.arpa and the carrier ENUM which are private instantiations of enum
> trees using the technology of 3761. Carrier ENUM which is essentially a
> replacement for SS7 and Global Title Translation is doing just fine and
> deploying rapidly for applications like MMS/SMS routing etc in carrier
> networks.

IMHO this just cannot be stressed too much. Actually, Rui's whole set of 
questions needs to be separately applied to both flavours; e.g. "Do 
users understand it and are willing to pay for it? Do companies 
understand it and are willing to pay for it?" wrt. Infra ENUM puts 
operators up as users and/or companies.

A first idea of an answer might be heavily related to the 
interconnection and termination regime in a certain country as well as 
the (non-) existence of number portability - and how this is technically 
done.

Best,

Carsten