-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Q1.What is the country and E.164 code Ireland, +353 Q2. Who is the delegate for the E.164 code The E.164 code +353 is delegated to ComReg, the Commission for Communications Regulation, acting on behalf of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. Q3. The Status of Deployment The trial is being conducted. First phase (Technical and organisational set-up) is finished since early October 2004. Phase 2 (test with UCD and MCI customers) will be conducted between October 2004 and March 2005. Q4. ENUM Project contact details: ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation) Irish Life Centre Abbey Street Dublin 1 Ireland Pat Walsh: pat.dot.walsh.at.comreg.dot.ie Oonagh O'Reilly: oonagh.dot.oreilly.at.comreg.dot.ie Q5. The trial is being conducted Q6. Is there work or plans toward full deployment? Commercialisation is in the books but no detailed plans have been done so far. Q7. Who is leading the ENUM Project? ComReg Q8. Who operates the ccTLD for that country at present? IE Domain Registry Limited (IEDR) Q9. What type of organisation runs the ccTLD? The IEDR is a private, independent, not-for-profit company Q10. What is the ccTLD legal regulation? The E-Commerce Act of 2000 empowers the relevant Minister to introduce regulations which may "authorise, prohibit or regulate the registration and use of the ie domain name in the State." (http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2000/a2700.pdf) To date, this power has not been exercised. Q11. Who is it the current Tier 1 registry? Afilias (for the duration of the trial) Q12. Who is, or will be the permanent Tier 1 registry? To be defined before commercialisation stage Q13. How will be the Tier 1 registry selection be made? According to the Irish ENUM Forum's report, this will be by standard European public procurement process. (http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg04105a.pdf) Q14. Method of cost recovery? To be defined Q15. Will there be more than one Tier 1 provider? Very unlikely Q16. Will there be ENUM registrars? To be defined (Registrar roles could be merged with Tier 2 Name Server Providers) Q17. What will be the ENUM validation technique? Several techniques from checking a phone bill to sending a SMS, making a telephone call to the registrant ... Trial experience is expected to identify which techniques are operationally feasible. Q18. Is there/will be a special number block for ENUM? A special range has been defined for VoIP, but ENUM is not restriced to this range. Q19. Is there special treatment for unlisted numbers? To be defined. Q20. Are there any plan for infrastructure ENUM? To be defined Q21. What is the ENUM WHOIS address? To be defined Q22. Please provide the history for ENUM trials, projects etc... The Irish ENUM Forum was created in October 2003. The approach within the Irish ENUM Forum was to advance the thinking and understanding of ENUM within the Irish communications industry, to develop a clear understanding of how the framework for the operation of ENUM can take place and to define an Engineering Trial that would derive some additional learning, leading to conclusions that can provide guidance to Irish organisations on how to respond to ENUM. An engineering trial was launched in July 2004 and will end in March 2005. Phase 1: Technical and organisational set-up (July-October 2004) Phase 2: test with customers (Oct 2004 to March 2005) Q23. What are the future plans? Phase 2 of trial from October to March next year. Possible commercialisation process (TO BE CONFIRMED) from Q2-Q3 2005. Q24. What is your date estimate on a production ENUM...? Q2-Q3 2005 (TO BE CONFIRMED) Best regards, Niall O'Reilly PGP key ID: AE995ED9 (see www.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 23DC C6DE 8874 2432 2BE0 3905 7987 E48D AE99 5ED9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBx/PGeYfkja6ZXtkRAhPvAJ9HjI56g6AwuIpxpV8/c5J9Nws7YACeIix8 2IIx5axtlu6tgzjgSCt0LDQ= =/9CF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----