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

On 1 jun 2011, at 19.14, Richard Shockey wrote:

> Well as your former ENUM WG chair (yea!! NO BLUE DOT!!!) .. Yes public ENUM is essentially dead.

That just because the holders of E.164 does not allow end users that use the E.164 in question have the ENUM record in DNS refer to whatever they want.

Only regulation can unlock this situation. That forces E.164 holders to either have a DNS that people can enter whatever they want, or let third parties run DNS for the E.164 numbers in question.

This has nothing directly to do with ENUM, but rather whether the E.164 number should be tied to one and only one specific provider of services or not.

I also copy cooperation wg in RIPE as that wg is one that could discuss this lock-in situation that exists.

   Patrik