[enum-wg] Commission launches consultation on a single Europe-wide phone number for EU businesses

--On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 18:13 +0100 Patrik Fältström
<paf at cisco.com> wrote:

> On 7 dec 2010, at 15.57, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> 
>> 	This news just came my way, and may be of interest.
>> 
>> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10
>> /1664&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
> 
> ...and why do they not use ENUM including delegations?

Right.   Well, maybe someone European should drop them a short
note suggesting that they request delegation of
3.8.8.3.e168.arpa as an easy way of developing/ experimenting
with this.  If nothing else, the amusement value of watching the
ITU try to figure out how to turn it down would be considerable.
Or, if one were sadistic, one could think about avoiding the
silliness of giving the EU a four-digit country code by
generating a short document allowing for regional number
delegations in the ENUM tree so that, e.g.,
    ...5.1.1.eu.e164.arpa.
would work.


> Some figures in the document give me flashes from the previous
> millenium!
> 
> 1998 -- welcome back!

Indeed.

    john