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

On 27/08/2012 17:23, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> I know two types of people: Skype users who for the sake of it being free accept it's unreliability and couldn't care less about it's non-openness and people who seldom make calls abroad and have a flatrate on their GSM handset. That's 98,5% of the telco voice market. I hate to say it but it's reality.

May I comment this from the National Research and Education Networks
(NRENs) community (aka. NRENum.net initiative) point of view. Skype is
not for free ;-) In some countries, the NREN pays for the peering
traffic that leaves the NREN network to commercial directions. If all
university students and academic staff on campus use Skype that can
generate a significant amount of peering traffic. NRENs' aim is to keep
the (communication) traffic on research networks end-to-end. Unified
communication systems with ENUM support can facilitate this. That's how
the NRENum.net tree works for our community.

BTW, can you please Skype me? Ahh... you don't know my Skype ID. Can you
please sync with your contacts? Ahh... I'm not your Facebook friend. Can
you just Google for my office number and call me? Ahh... you wanna see
my face laughing and dunno how to reach my VC client........

This is the problem space that NRENum.net wants to solve for the
academic community.

> My 2 cents. Sorry, but I am just trying to be realistic.

So do I ;-)

Regards,
Peter

> Regards,
> Torsten
>  
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:56:54 +0200
>> Von: Carsten Schiefner <enumvoipsip.cs at schiefner.de>
>> An: bod at enumfederation.org, enum-wg at ripe.net, "Patrik Fältström" <paf at frobbit.se>
>> Betreff: [enum-wg] The ENUM Federation: activities, website etc.
> 
>> 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
>>
> 

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