*What is the country and E.164 code?*
China, 86
*Who is the delegate for the E.164 code?*
Administrative contact: Mao Wei (China Internet Network
Information Center)
Techinical contact: Xiaodong Li (China Internet Network
Information Center)
Delegation is for Trial purpose.
*The status of deployment (notdelegated >applied
>delegated/objected >trial >hiatus >production)*
Trial.
*ENUM Project contact details (telephone, email, web)*
tel: 86-10-58813000
*Is a trial being, or going to be, conducted?*
The trial is being.
*What type of numbers are being used in the trial?*
All the E.164 numbers under country code 86 can be
used in the trial now.
*Is there work or plans toward full permanent deployment?*
Currently not decided.
*What type of numbers are to be used in full deployment?*
Not decided.
*Who is leading the ENUM project? (government, industry working group,
etc.)*
MII(Ministry of Information
Industry) and CNNIC leaded by MII.
*Who operates the ccTLD for that country at present?*
*What type of organisation runs the ccTLD? (state, private, academic,
etc.) *
Not-for-profit organization.
*What is the ccTLD legal regulation, if any?*
*Who is the current Tier 1 registry?*
CNNIC is the current Tier1 registry in the trial.
*Who is, or will be, the permanent Tier 1 registry?*
Not decided.
*How will the Tier 1 registry selection be made? (i.e. decision,
license, concession, agreement, public procurement, etc.) *
Not decided.
*How will the method of cost recovery for the Tier 1 registry's operations?*
A recommendation will be submitted before full deployment.
*Will there be more than one Tier 1 provider for the country? *
The recommendation is one Tier 1 provider.
*Will there be ENUM registrars?*
There are
two simulative ENUM registrars in the trial.
*What will be the ENUM validation technique?*
To be defined.
*Is there/will there be a special number block for ENUM and/or IP
Telephony?*
Not decided.
*Is there special treatment for unlisted numbers?*
Not decided.
*Are there any plans for infrastructure ENUM?*
Yes, infrastructure ENUM is in the plan.
*What is your ENUM WHOIS address?*
*Please provide the history of ENUM trials, projects etc., if any.*
2001, China Network Information Center (CNNIC) started up ENUM research.
2002, MII authorized doing ENUM application experiment and organized
ENUM trial consortium, set up leader team and research group of the trial; Science and technology department, MII held the proseminar and decided to apply 6.8.e164.arpa for evolution trial of ENUM top level domain (TLD) ;
CNNIC started up and ran 6.8.e164.arpa slave server; CNNIC began to run ONE of SIX ENUM root server (e164.arpa domain server).
2003, CNNIC published ENUM trial system, provided registration and tested resolution performance.
2004, CNNIC originated and joined the APEET (Asia-pacific ENUM Engineering Team).
2005, CNNIC studied ENUM commercial architecture and did experiment on ENUM new services.
2006, CNNIC updated ENUM trial system; studied authorization and authentication of ENUM application.
*What are your future plans? (and dates if available)*
N/A.
*What is your date estimate on a production ENUM registry launch?*
Not yet decided.