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U.S. Endorses ENUM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-up-the-digits dept.

esarjeant writes "It looks like the the U.S. has endorsed ENUM (also known as E.164.arpa). This means you get a single number for phone and Internet, look for demos at Spring VON (San Jose, April 1-3) and VISIONng will be engaging in US trials. Essentially this means you get a new TLD of e164.arpa with your phone number in front of it." The addresses look pretty long and unwieldy, but supposedly consumer devices will make it easier to use.

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  1. Re:More Information about ENUM by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ooooo...sending it backwards makes it all better.

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  2. Re:International by mpe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm. Not .arpa.us then? Is the idea that all numbers across the globe fit into .arpa, or is this an example of an inappropriate TLD?

    Don't you mean "another", rather than an... e164.arpa is a SLD anyway.

    .com and .org have a sensible argument to make themselves out to be international.

    If that were the case these domains wouldn't be very well used, especially .com. Since it is hard and expensive for a commercial entity to operate globally.

    Phone numbers are definitely region-specific however, and they certainly should be encompassed within . domains.

    Over most of the planet phone numbers are "country" specific. Maybe what would be needed would be an additional TLD of .nanp to cope with the one case which isn't country specific.