ENUM

Its potential and some issues

A presentation to ICANN

Agenda

What is ENUM?

What can ENUM do?

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A bit about E.164 numbers

Why bother about telephone numbers and convergence?

The Starting Point
 Questions ENUM looked to answer

Some early answers

More about ENUM (RFC 2916)

Inputting Telephone numbers (1)

Inputting Telephone numbers (2)

ENUM Number Resolution

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Some technical realisation aspects

Who is involved?

What is still at issue?

Some agreements between IETF/ITU

Some emerging principles

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What’s happened in the US?

How did those meetings go?

So. . .what did the report say?

It’s not quite so easy . . .

An open forum in the United States

What’s the US ENUM forum doing?

What’s happening in Europe?

The routeing issue

Some early European activities at the national level

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