Peter and Torsten - although this discusssion only got sparked by my mistake, I start to enjoy it. :-) I guess this is just the kind of meaningful debate and exchange of opinions and views on ENUM matters we should see happening here more often. Best, Carsten On 28.08.2012 11:39, Peter Szegedi wrote:
On 27/08/2012 17:23, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
I know two types of people: Skype users who for the sake of it being free accept it's unreliability and couldn't care less about it's non-openness and people who seldom make calls abroad and have a flatrate on their GSM handset. That's 98,5% of the telco voice market. I hate to say it but it's reality.
May I comment this from the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) community (aka. NRENum.net initiative) point of view. Skype is not for free ;-) In some countries, the NREN pays for the peering traffic that leaves the NREN network to commercial directions. If all university students and academic staff on campus use Skype that can generate a significant amount of peering traffic. NRENs' aim is to keep the (communication) traffic on research networks end-to-end. Unified communication systems with ENUM support can facilitate this. That's how the NRENum.net tree works for our community.
BTW, can you please Skype me? Ahh... you don't know my Skype ID. Can you please sync with your contacts? Ahh... I'm not your Facebook friend. Can you just Google for my office number and call me? Ahh... you wanna see my face laughing and dunno how to reach my VC client........
This is the problem space that NRENum.net wants to solve for the academic community.