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

My my .. how the memories return. 

Makes you want to just throw up your lunch.  

I remember when NeuStar got the contract to manage +3883 and then nothing happened since there was no mandate to enable the code in the C5/C7 switches. Consequently nothing happened ..there was lots of discussion of ENUM enableling the code even then but no action due to the resistance of the incumbent carriers. 

I noted there isn’t much here about policy..one of the things everyone thought was going to be a driver for a pan EU prefix demand was toll-free. That is one policy idea for the numbering space that would have worked but the resistance I recall was pretty fierce. Just like the resistance to formalizing pan EU centralized databases for LNP.  You have now most of the big players UK DE etc essentially ignoring the order while the smaller countries SE NL are doing a excellent job.

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From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of John C Klensin
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:25 PM
To: Patrik Fältström; Niall O'Reilly
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Subject: Re: [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