Bypass yes, but double asterisk is widely recognized as international dialing code (instead of “+”), but not for example in Poland for mobile carriers, “**” doesn’t work…

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From: enum-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Ray.Bellis@nominet.org.uk
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:52 PM
To: Andrzej Bartosiewicz
Cc: enum-wg@ripe.net
Subject: RE: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

> Nice app, but…
>  
> It’s designed to UK dialing style… Instead of just copying the
> “tel:” numbers from DNS in the format as they appear (like +48606….)
> it replaces “+” with “**” – this doesn’t work in Poland…

The '**' prefix is the app's ENUM bypass prefix.  

The app has to add the prefix to tel: URIs (and then later strip it off again) so that they don't go back through the ENUM lookup when you dial them.

Can you please let me know [offlist] what number you were trying to dial?

Ray

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