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

Peter and Torsten -

although this discusssion only got sparked by my mistake, I start to
enjoy it. :-)

I guess this is just the kind of meaningful debate and exchange of
opinions and views on ENUM matters we should see happening here more often.

Best,

	Carsten

On 28.08.2012 11:39, Peter Szegedi wrote:
> 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.