[enum-wg] market potential/future for public ENUM

On 1 Jun 2011, at 16:55, Otmar Lendl wrote:

> Our experience in Austria has been that an ENUM service independent  
> of the
> PSTN operator for the phone number has almost no market potential.

Indeed. Though this is not just an Austrian experience. It appears to  
be a universal one. I think it's very hard to find any success story  
for ENUM on the Internet. Public ENUM is essentially dead. Apart  
(maybe) for phone numbers in blocks associated with VoIP operators.  
But even there, some of those operators are relying on termination  
fees for incoming calls from the PSTN. So they'd prefer their  
customers to have tel: URLs instead of sip: URLs. Which kind of  
defeats the point.

I think it's time this WG considered its future. The IETF WG has  
closed down. That should be a very clear hint.