[enum-wg] ENUM and number portability

I think there is a way to go in implementing ENUM. It took something like 15 years to reach the point where BT decided multicast is a good idea!  Sometimes dinosaurs evolve and find they have to eat the dog food after all. 




Christian

On 2 Jun 2011, at 10:13, Peter Gradwell wrote:

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>> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Cheers
> Peter
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> (UK ENUM Consortium Chair, Telco Owner)
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