How is this proposed +8787 different from the current +87810? (Other then the goverance portion?) -James Seng Chris Heinze wrote:
hi!
the company i'm with is providing services in the voip-area, and we had and still have our problems with the situation with telephone-numbers for voip-services in general. we were observing that other companies have the same and similar problems, and that several - mostly quite ugly - workarounds are being started, but that's all not very promising. also recent trials and decisions in our region didn't make us very confident that there's a working solution to this problem anywhere in sight. so we thought it might be a good time to start a discussion about possible solutions to the telephone-number problems, and we consider the just-in-time creation of the ripe enum-wg a good omen. ;) we put together a kind of proposal for a possible solution, just to contribute to the discussion and have something to talk about.
we're very curious whether there is general support for a request of non-geographical E.164 UPTS-space for enduser-assignments handled by public registries, and in case there is, what is your idea about the following proposal, what should be done different? we're hoping some proposal for action towards some solution that is capable of finding consensus in the WG and the respective other involved institutions can be produced.
so let's become formal and to the point: