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

OK.. what idiots.  The problem is that without a real LNP database you can't
transition off the Class 5 switches efficiently and go to a converged IP
core network.  That is what is happening in the US. The level of real
interconnected SIP/IMS is pushing 35% of all US voice calls and with VoLTE
it will be 70%+. You use LNP to optimize the proxy platforms.

-----Original Message-----
From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
Ray Bellis
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:40 AM
To: Richard Shockey
Cc: RIPE ENUM WG
Subject: Re: [enum-wg] market potential/future for public ENUM


On 2 Jun 2011, at 15:26, Richard Shockey wrote:

> I thought the problem was the Crown Court case brought by Vodaphone
> overturning the NICC RFP

NICC only produces technical standards.  In this case a working group (of
industry representatives) was formed well in advance in anticipation of the
OFCOM requirement to create an LNP database.

Once OFCOM had consulted on LNP and decided it wanted to go ahead and
require one, the telcos created "UK Porting" to work on the commercial
requirements and to issue the RFP for an implementation.

Vodafone took OFCOM to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and won, primarily
on the basis that OFCOM's cost-benefit-analysis was flawed.

The result was a new CBA, which determined that there was an economic case
for LNP and direct routing on mobile networks, but not for fixed networks.

Ray