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RE: [Enum] Competitive ENUM services
In the U.S. subscribers of all wireline numbers, both portable and not,
have a choice to be listed or unlisted.
Subscribers of toll free numbers are granted privacy by tariff: RespOrgs
are proscribed from revealing who the subscriber of a toll free number is.
Subscribers are granted "control over the tollfree number and service", not
"ownership," though some are obviously treated as assets (1 800 FLOWERS,
etc.)
However, telephone companies and RespOrgs do not own telephone numbers
either. Numbers are considered a resource of the North American Numbering
Plan.
Judith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: enum-admin@ietf.org [mailto:enum-admin@ietf.org]On Behalf Of Ray
> Anderson
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 6:15 AM
> To: John D. Goodspeed; enum@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Enum] Competitive ENUM services
>
>
> John,
>
> While I agree that a monolithic structure may be wrong, and that
> competition in services is great.
> (for example, Bango Numbers compete with some ENUM based
> companies), you
> underestimate the
> need to provide a stable infrastructure to enable innovation.
>
> Firstly, it is unclear whether a subscriber owns their
> number. In many
> countries, a government agency
> has the power to modify numbering plans. In the case of
> Europe, an EU
> directive could override national
> policy. In addition, if you move between countries, or
> between Mobile
> Operators, in some cases you cannot move
> your number "at will".
>
> Second, you, as cunsumer, do not normally have any power to
> say whether the
> number is made visible or
> not over the infrastructure. Generally, you only have
> control over the
> policies used when the number is called, and
> in many cases you can't even control that with certain types of
> number. You may also have some control over visibility
> in some directories. For example, companies or the state may
> be able to
> track you down, even if you are ex-directory
>
> Ray
>
> At 02:42 17/08/2001 -0400, John D. Goodspeed wrote:
> >I should think that the last thing the world wants is an Orwellian
> >"Authorized" monolithic structure owning or controlling
> Internet (enum)
> >telephone numbers. As a paying telephone number subscriber,
> I effectively
> >own my telephone number, therefore I shall choose to remain
> in control over
> >how and when it is made available to the general public via
> the Internet.
> >
> >
> >The consumer is king. The monopoly is dead. From now on
> think "open systems"
> >/ "open numbers".
>
>
> Ray Anderson CEO Bango.net Limited
> www.bango.net/00454545
>
>
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