[enum-wg] ENUM and number portability

> To be fair, there is of course nothing that prevents the telcos doing this on their own 
> without Ofcom's adult supervision. I wonder why they just don't it.

They/we are trying (quite hard at the moment), but there are 30+ different views (oft conflicting) that need to be reconciled without many commercial imperatives to do so. It would be helpful for the regulator to set better incentives and facilitate the reconciliation as they are best placed to do this (owning both the carrot and the stick).

But this probably has little to do with ENUM, although it is one of the main contributing factors as to why UK public ENUM is dead in the water.

Cheers
Peter

(UK ENUM Consortium Chair, Telco Owner)