[enum-wg] ENUM contact info should show up in LDAP

On 18 Mar 2013, at 15:47, "Rick van Rein (OpenFortress)" <rick at openfortress.nl> wrote:

> What is the opinion about such a translator on this list?

I think it's a waste of time. User ENUM is dead. Sorry. Some sort of LDAP-DNS shim might be interesting as an academic exercise but its real-world utility seems doubtful at best.

I don't understand how or why LDAP could be better than DNS for publishing or updating contact data. Sure, you could get better authentication with LDAP, but is that scalable and worth the effort? It's not clear to me why someone would choose to use a heavyweight LDAP transaction instead of a lightweight DNS lookup or dynamic update. There could be a role for LDAP in Carrier ENUM (handwave!), though how that would intersect stuff running on desktops or mobile devices is a bit of a challenge.

User ENUM-based applications and services using DNS have pretty much flopped. How would new stuff based on LDAP change that?