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  1. Re:stalemate by p.rican · · Score: 1 · on Vonage Admits They Have No Workaround
    This is absolutely ridiculous. Verizon basically patented an extension of DNS. Mapping addresses to phone numbers?
    sounds like they want to claim rights to ENUM http://www.enum.org/
  2. Re:Nice idea but... by KillerLoop · · Score: 1 · on VOIP Meets Cell Phones

    That's what ENUM (Electronic Number Mapping) is good for.

    You can learn more about ENUM, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) at this link.

  3. Inevitable - but where to start .. ? by OneNonly · · Score: 5, Interesting · on FCC Insists Feds Should Regulate VoIP

    Regulation of VoiP is inevitable - especially as it starts to become more main stream (and especially when the major carriers begin to switch over to it).

    I just wish the regulation would start by getting all carriers to allow user defined ENUM records - and allow the Voip revolution to start in a big way.

    If I can specify a SIP address in Enum for my own home phone number, then anyone using SIP phones that looked up ENUM could be routed to this number, and bypass the carrier all together.. But how many carriers can we actually see implementing this without some form of government intervention??

  4. Re:Internet Access... VoiceXML & ENUM by G4from128k · · Score: 1 · on Ban on Internet Access Tax Dies in Senate

    With VoiceXML and ENUM every POTS device becomes an internet access device. Does this means that every mail order retailer that currently collects sales taxes (due to local point-of-presense sales tax laws) can stop collecting those taxes?

    I suspect that the senate found it rather hard to create a clear demarcation between commerce based on "internet access" versus commerce based on traditional, taxed categories of custmer interactions.

  5. Re:But who has the directory? by wfberg · · Score: 1 · on Michael Robertson Unveils SIPphone

    Replying to myself.. Too bad you can't edit your own posts.. But then again, the goatse guy might crop up a lot! ;-)

    Free World Dialup is already running a directory that voip services can hook up to for free. For example "Dial 1010333number to reach iConnectHere subscribers" and "Dial **478number to reach any iptel subscriber."

    Not as good as using DNS (you could just dial number@iptel.com if that were implemented correctly) or a global standard so that voip services would just have their own LD/country code for example (though the PSTN telco's are actually moving toward SIP rather than the other way around - using enum.)

  6. Re:Better Idea by Ducon+Lajoie · · Score: 5, Informative · on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York
    It exists (more or less) and it's called ENUM. It's a IETF WG. You can find the marketing stuff here.

    Before you go running in the streets naked yelling Eureka, consider the privacy implication of the said technology and other related issues. Google it. Thanks.