[enum-wg] The ENUM Federation: activities, website etc.

Dear ENUM WG colleagues -

email address auto-completion is not always your friend, it seems.

I am sure that it has happened to at least some of you already: now I 
got hit by it, too.

The distribution list should have actually been read 
<enum-wg-CHAIRS at ripe.net> instead of just <enum-wg at ripe.net> - my 
sincerest apologies, please ignore my posting below at least for the 
time being.

I am sure that we will have a short notion or update on it under AOB of 
the upcoming ENUM WG session of the RIPE 65 meeting.

All the best,

	Carsten Schiefner
	RIPE ENUM WG Co-Chair

On 27.08.2012 16:56, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
> Distribution List:
>
> +> bod at enumfederation.org
>     +> ???, enum.at (Austria)
>     +> Pavel Tuma, CZ.NIC (Czech Republic)
>     +> Joerg Schweiger, DENIC (Germany)
>     +> ???, SIDN (Netherlands)
>     +> ???, nominet (United Kingdom)
>
> +> enum-wg at ripe.net
>     +> Niall O'Reilly, RIPE ENUM WG Co-Chair
>     +> Carsten Schiefner, RIPE ENUM WG Co-Chair
>
> +> Patrik Fältström, ENUM inventor
>
> ===
>
> Dear all -
>
> first of all, I do hope that you all have had some lovely holidays and
> could relax and recharge batteries!
>
> As you may be aware, I have had some multilateral, but also bilateral
> talks with some of you wrt. the ENUM Federation and particularly its
> website at:
>
>      http://www.enumfederation.org/
>
> As I got it, there have recently some ideas been floated around amongst
> the BoD members about a very last attempt to give the idea behind the
> Federation a push.
>
> Reasons are, amongst others, that ENUM in the Carrier space gets more
> and more grip, but also in the public name space with the advent of the
> NRENUM activities.
>
> But although the registration of a phone number as an ENUM domain bears
> quite some similarity with the usual registration of a domain under a
> TLD, there is at least one crucial thing that might actually hinder a
> massive take-up in registration figures, even if all other preconditions
> are fully in place: that is that the registrant would never fully "own"
> a number where the ENUM domain is derived from - contrary to a classic
> domain name. There is carrier and geopgraphic number portability in
> place, of course - however, if one cancels the PSTN service the number
> comes with the number goes away too.
>
> So, the ENUM federation could also be a good place to initiate a
> discussion about a change in this regulation scheme, for example.
>
> Anyhow: I'd see such (re)launch activities quite complementary to what
> is usually being discussed and done in the ENUM WG, as the focus of the
> Federaion is much more on the actual promotion of ENUM in a commercial
> sense, if I am correct.
>
> I would be happy to take this up - and what I have heard from Niall
> sounds very similar. So please consider this email a kick-off to start
> some meaningful debate how it shoud be proceeded.
>
> All the best,
>
>      Carsten
>
>