Hi All,
Today I was thinking on diferente applications for ENUM. While VoIP is
a nice (killer app), it "seems" to confict with established businesse
models and services. What about if there is other applications that
could use ENUM that are based on a completly different model?
Some of the biggest rising applications on the WEB are Facebook,
Twitter, ... and so on. They provide some kind of communication, in
fact, it's a mix of: instant messaging, picture sharing, presence, ...
and all together. In fact, there are some subset web applications
that, together, can provide to the used most of their digital needs.
If you have visited and used them you may know that there are some
features that are better on one site, and others better on others. Not
because they are technicaly better, but because you, as a user, like
them better.
Then I was thinking about ID's on this diferent web 2.0 services. If
you have a bizard name, you are lucky, but if your name that conflicts
with another user on the Internet, you are in trouble. You have to
come up with lots of diferent ID's for diferent services.
Then there is another issue... what if I don't like "facebook" anymore
and now the hipe is on "bookface" (another web 2.0 application,
similar to facebook)? My social network will just paralise on
facebook, and I would have to republish on "bookface". What if my
microblogging site starts to be other than twitter, what would happen
to all my followers?
What if ENUM could provide references to microblogging site, to
presence site, picture sharing, ...? Yes, I now that Web URL's are
already enabled on ENUM, but I'm thinking a little further... what if
we could publish the URL with the application type reference, not just
the WEB site.
It happens already with VoIP, where the register states the type of
protocol that should be used: SIP, h323, tel, ...
Technically everything is possible on ENUM, as it is a swissknife
where each blade is made out of RFC's. ;-)
The benifit for the user could be the ability to point all the
applications to the ENUM number, and the applications would then go
and get the information on the right place. Why publish the
microblogging link, the presence/status link and so on if you could
just publish your ENUM number? All the followers would just following
you any way, even if you change the application.
For ENUM, it could be an application outside of the "voip box" that
could push to the forefront of the innovation wave.
Think of ENUM register as a personal ID, and not as a phone number...
is this a bad assumption? I know that the number is given by the
teleco industry/regulator and not by the state it self, but what is
you phone number other than you personal ID? With portability services
(hopefully) we could maintain the same number for ever, right?
Thanks,
Rui Ribeiro
racribeiro(a)gmail.com
