Carsten On 18 Jul 2009, at 17:35, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
Christian,
Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
ENUM is neither a product nor a service. ENUM is a protocol. [...] Trying to link ENUM to any particular financial model is counter productive. Each market participant can decide for themselves how or why they might leverage ENUM. But they can only do this if it is implemented.
Indeed. As you said: ENUM is a protocol. But no settlement protcol, for sure.
:-). But ENUM as a protocol does not preclude use of other protocols including those for settlements.
So the Regulator should allocate all numbers with ENUM. Then the Regulator will underpin universal service and seed both critical mass and low per unit cost.
Coudl you please elaborate a bit here? Do you call for regulators to make ENUM mandatory?
I am saying that when an E.164 is allocated (to an operator) by a regulator it should be entered into the ENUM tree even it simply returns the tel: uri for the number itself. There is a separate step that a regulator may require of operators providing numbering to then delegate that resource and authority to expand the ENUM information for a number to or on behalf of a user. I am not convinced that making this second step mandatory is necessary provided that users have the ability to port numbers meaningfully. A test for this is whether there are genuine market options for users to change operator to implement ENUM.
Thanks and all the best:
Carsten
best regards Christian