Re: [Enum] Competitive ENUM services

["A.M.Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

Hi Ray, John,

>has the power to modify numbering plans.  In the case of Europe, an EU 
>directive could override national
>policy.

As a general direction in empowering consumers in their
retention and control of numbers you might want to reference
the CEC Green Paper, Towards a European Numbering Environment,
COM(96)590, Brussels, 20 Nov 1996.  In addition, the European
privacy policies in general are quite strong in providing
protections to consumers as you note.

The CEC IS DG appears to analyse ENUM developments in terms
of anticompetitive actions by incumbent telcos within the
Green Paper framework.  Unfolding ENUM events provide them
with lots of fodder for concern.

In the U.S., the FCC's number portability policies have
effectively made phone numbers the equivalent of pointers,
albeit with an ambiguous user nexus.

--tony


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