Re: [Enum] Reverse ENUM

["James Seng" <James@Seng.cc>]

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From: "James Seng" <James@seng.cc>
To: <enum@ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:35 AM
Subject: [Enum] Reverse ENUM


> I hate to be the one pouring cold water on this stuff but...I probably
> should inform the group that there was a patent filed in Oct 2001 by my
> previous employee on a titled 'Phone Name'. The broad claim involve using

s/employee/employer/

> the DNS to resolve a name into a tel: or fax: URL via NAPTR records.
>
> In a couple of months, it should appear on the USPTO website.
>
> Regardless of the merits of the patent filing, the group should take note
of
> this IPR.
>
> -James Seng
>
> > At the last Pulver Conference in Atlanta VON Fall2002 the idea
> > of "Reverse ENUM" was discussed at various places. Even Vint Cerf
> > mentioned it in his speech. BTW, Vint Cerf talked about 10 min about
> > the importance of ENUM and Rich nearly got a heart-attack because
> > he had no voice-recorder on ;-)
> >
> > The principle of "Reverse ENUM" should be, that in the same way
> > you use a client querying for an E.164 Number in the format +1234xxx
> > you may use the same client entering user@foo.bar. The idea is,
> > that in the domain foo.bar somewhere a NAPTR? is stored pointing
> > to the ENUM entry for the phone number (e.g. with a tel: or enum: URI).
> >
> > The user would always get the same information regardless if he
> > is entering either the +431xxx or the user@foo.bar. One simple
> > approach was (as proposed by Rich et.al) to store the NAPTRs?
> > by convention in subdomains user.at.foo.bar of the domain foo.bar.
> > A more sophisticated approach may retrieve the "user" part with a
> > ldap pointer from the mail or sip server.
> >
> > Michael, since I do not fully understand your example and also your
> > (soon to come) RFC3404, (I tried, but it gave me a headache)
> > could you please elaborate more on your proposal, to enlighten me ;-)
> >
> > Best regards
> > Richard Stastny
> >
> >
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