Hi Mark, Let's say that I'm a user (not a company, even less an operator). I have a SIP phone that supports ENUM direcly (it queries the golden tree, understand the registers flags, queries the DNS based on the URI, and makes the call). ENUM redirects to a user that is registred on your server. Would you accept the calls? (note... there are no costs neither a internconection contract). What if it was the other way around? Would you redirect your calls to a URI with whom you don't have any relashionship? Would you even trie to deliver the call, and redirect it through PSTN if failed?
We would be happy to create SIP connections to other VoIP operators. But it totally depends on the interconnection costs (if there would be no fee to call to SIP accounts on their server, they could call for free to SIP accounts on our platform ofcourse).
Who applies to "voip operaton" on your view? Could a non profit organization with thousands of numbers? [as NREN, Universitie, Hospital network, ...] Could it be a profit organization? (bank, insurance company, ...) Or only a "operator" fully registred. What is your view on initiatives like e164.org and nrenum.net? Do/Would you deliver calls to destinations pointed by these two trees? Rui Ribeiro racribeiro@gmail.com