Joao,

There was a conference in Lisbon in November last discussing the various aspects of the ENUM play/s motivation etc.

A number of people were in attendance from Telecom Portugal, I would be happy to discuss these contact with you bilaterally.

Perhaps the forum is not the best place to ask these questions, but there are certainly folks who have interesting views.

My own view is that this standard radically simplifies some of the more complex PSTN addressing problems and multiplicity of addressing issues consumers face.

The markets are going to have to decide to a large extent how this standard develops.

You may have noticed that the NANP, country code 1 (USA) delegation was approved yesterday. That might bring even more momentum to adoption of the standard.

Regards,

Ronan

Ronan Lupton
Senior Regulatory Manager & EMEA Interconnect Policy
International Affairs
Verizon Business
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Ireland

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-----Original Message-----
From: enum-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Joao Pereira
Sent: 16 February 2006 17:18
To: enum-wg@ripe.net
Subject: [enum-wg] ENUM motivation

Hello
We are beginning the request phase to the 1.5.3.e164.arpa in Portugal
and we still have some doubts about the main motivation towards this
technology, that would be from:

- Traditional Telcos ? No, they want to bill all calls....
- New Telcos ? No, they want to keep their VoIP networks closed...
- IP Telephony integrators (Alcatel, Cisco, Siemens,...)? Maybe... but
they usually work together with the Telcos
- the end users ? Yes :)

Is this user interest going to be enough?
And are they willing to pay for this registration? They can use free
ENUM trees....

How can we push for more ENUM registrations in the e164.arpa tree?

Thanks
Joao Pereira
FCCN