[enum-wg] ENUM and number portability

I have to admit I am constantly amazed at how the EU carriers have trained
the European Commission and the EC regulators with all of the skill and
professionalism of their American counterparts.  If I could only do that
with my dogs. 

LNP for instance is a total mess even with, how many directives from
Brussels? 

We may not be able to get public ENUM off the ground for a while but we
certainly can imbed the technology in their networks to the point where it
can't be ignored.  

Its not a futile effort.  Its still a very useful thing to rid the planet
Earth of the petulance of TDM/SS7/Class5 networks.


Well I hinted at this yesterday...this is the next carrier ENUM application.

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.

	Title           : SP URN
	Author(s)       : Penn Pfautz
	Filename        :
draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier-urn-00.txt
	Pages           : 5
	Date            : 2011-06-02

   This document requests a service provider identifier URN namespace.



A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier
-urn-00.txt



-----Original Message-----
From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
Christian de Larrinaga
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 5:56 AM
To: Peter Gradwell
Cc: Jim Reid; Ray Bellis; Richard Shockey; RIPE ENUM WG
Subject: Re: [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:

> 
>> 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)
> 
>