Dear ENUM WG participants, I'd like to kindly inform you about the latest progress of the TERENA's ENUM service for academia, called NRENum.net http://www.nrenum.net On 9 May 2012 the NRENum.net service participants agreed to change the service policy as follows: - As you may know, NRENum.net has been an ENUM service run by the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) for trial purposes mainly targeting those countries where the Golden Tree (e164.arpa) is not operational yet. - Recently, it's turned out that (in some countries) the Golden Tree production service roll out is not progressing (due to various reasons), and it will definitely not reach out to academia, while the R&E community in Europe and beyond desperately needs a seamless and scalable dialling solution among different communication technologies. - Therefore TERENA service participants agreed to position NRENum.net as a valid alternative to the Golden Tree for academia. The number migration to the Golden Tree (where it is available) is recommended but not mandatory any more. NRENs can join the NRENum.net service whether or not the Golden Tree is available in their country. - In addition to this, NRENum.net has become a global service. The NREN of Argentina, Brazil and Australia joined the service during the last one and a half months and there are other candidates in both the Latin-American and Asia-Pacific regions. Read more in the TERENA news item at http://www.terena.org/news/3159/fullstory Kind regards, Peter -- ----------------------------- Project Development Officer TERENA Secretariat Singel 468D, 1017AW Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31 20 530 4488 F: +31 20 530 4499 http://www.terena.org -----------------------------