[Freeswitch-users] e164.org

[Lawrence Conroy]

Hi There,
 Forgive the comment, but whilst you're spot on that public ENUM didn't get anywhere, IMHO the problem was not with indifferent customers but with Telcos.

Generally, whilst some folk wanted public ENUM to fly (including Her Maj's Government), a number of the providers were less "helpful". Some ITSPA members had their own competing scheme, and certain major Telcos in the UK sure as tooting did not want public ENUM (i.e., user controlled targeting) happening any time soon -- like before the heat death of the universe. Those interminable inter-carrier meetings with the government were a fine preparation for purgatory.
Basically, the original idea (it's your number, you control it, the telco delivers the call to where you want) was not just buried but sealed in neutronium.

The problems were never technical, and ENUM lives quite happily inside big operator networks in the USA -- I believe Comcast uses it for its calls (so avoiding number dips and long distance transit, and saving shed loads of money).
At least one VoIP provider over here (Sipgate) DID support public ENUM (i.e., E2U+sip NAPTRs in e164.arpa.), and as expected, it just worked.

I wish you all the best with duane's system -- it IS neat (and e164.org avoids the regulators and telcos), and as long as you're doing something simple that doesn't involve charges and tariffing, it'll work fine. Redirecting to a premium rate number is, however, not going to happen :).

all the best,
  Lawrence

On 19 Mar 2013, at 21:50, Andrew Cassidy wrote:
> Sadly the uptake is slow especially in the United Kingdom as most people
> over here generally seem to go for all-in-one packages with the PBX and
> call service.
> 
> Setting up ENUM would eat into the installer/provider's revenue stream
> potentially losing both origination and termination fees.
> 
> On 19 March 2013 17:28, Steven Schoch <schoch+freeswitch.org at xwin32.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> thanks!
>>> Please, add a wiki page too!
>> 
>> 
>> I updated the "Mod enum" page with this information.  Since it
>> specifically shows the phone number for e164.org, I have informed them as
>> well.
>> 
>> --
>> Steve