RE: [Enum] A proposal for Carrier ENUM

["Rosbotham, Paul" <Paul.Rosbotham at cwmsg.cwplc.com>]

Jim

I could live with that modification.  The one "gotcha" I would caution of, however, is that in some cases the regulator may not be willing to get involved, and prefer to leave it to the industry players to sort out amongst themselves.  For example, I know that in some countries Administrations have grappled with how to deal with (user) ENUM because they are barred by statute from involvement in internet addressing issues.  As a compromise, how about we agree something along the lines of "Ordinarily the entity populating Carrier ENUM will be the one providing PSTN service to the number in question, but the detail of this is one which may specified by the relevant national regulator."

Regards

Paul 


-----Original Message-----
From: James McEachern [mailto:jmce at nortel.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:36 PM
To: Rosbotham, Paul; enum at ietf.org
Cc: james.f.baskin at verizon.com
Subject: RE: [Enum] A proposal for Carrier ENUM


Paul,
I realize you asked to halt this thread, but I have one question for clarification.  Rather than "specifying that the entity populating Carrier ENUM be the one providing PSTN service to the number in question", wouldn't it make more sense to specify that the entity populating Carrier ENUM be the one authorized by the national regulator to populate Carrier ENUM for the number in question?

Based on the previous discussion I can imagine that in some circumstances it might be advantageous for the regulator to have the donor carrier populate Carrier ENUM.  If it truly is up to the national regulator, perhaps we should simply recognize this, rather than presume what the regulator will decide?

Jim



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