[Serusers] ENUM anyone?

[Greg Fausak]

Adrian Georgescu wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> 
> There is an ongoing project like this using freenum.org TLD. We use it 
> to provide access to 0800 numbers in various countries. You may of 
> course put up together any TLD for this, the problem is just getting 
> enough interest and subsequently scale up your business to support 
> delegation requests. There are various requirements you have to fulfill 
> like high availability, disaster recovery etc...  Then, when you try to 
> become Tier1 you will certainly be on collision course with many. I 
> would not like to be in that position, nevertheless you may give it a 
> try, we can all learn from it.
> 
> Last but not least ENUM is not just about DNS hosting. To see what I 
> mean, take a look at my presentation for NAPTR record manipulation from 
> RIPE: http://www.ag-projects.com/NAPTR/NAPTRRecordManipulation.ppt
> 

Adrian,

Thanks for your follow up.  High availability and disaster recovery
are par for the course.  I own an ISP, we do that with all of
our services.

I realize that ENUM is a big deal.  I just want to
use ENUM to lookup the SIP server to send a call request to.
It seems that day is a long way off.

I don't want to be a tier1 provider, I just want to get this thing
going.  Why can't a group of people just work together to provide
a combined ENUM service?  it doesn't have to be a business, it
just needs to be a common registration spot for reverse delegation.

I would provide hardware/software/bandwidth/hosting for such an endevor.

---greg

> Adrian
> 
> 
> On 16 Mar 2004, at 01:11, Greg Fausak wrote:
> 
>> Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>>
>>> Greg, what do you mean precisely with:
>>>
>>>>  bind installation that would forward requests to the right party.
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that while ENUM is great, and it
>> does wonderful things, it doesn't help unless I can use
>> it to direct a call to a SIP proxy.  I've been waiting for
>> a year now for .arpa (or someone) to do the root
>> enum service.  Do we really need to wait?  Can't I put
>> together a forwarding server that forwards your ENUM
>> lookup to your server?
>>
>> I envision building a forwarding server.  Then anyone that
>> has an ENUM server can 'register' thier authority with my
>> forwarding server.  When I get an enum lookup (for a e164 number)
>> I forward it to the correct ENUM server.  That would give us
>> one ENUM server to query for anyone's e164 number, and it
>> gives the authority on the number to the ITSP (or whoever).
>>
>> I have been using ENUM internally for some time.  The SER
>> ENUM support is great, it works...I'd just like to be able to
>> deliver a call to, for instance, fwd.  Of course I can set up
>> a prefix and say 'if the first 7 digits are 1010393' then send
>> it to fwd.pulver.com.  Something much more elegant would be
>> to do a ENUM lookup at enum.neutralhost.com.
>>
>> I would be willing to put a neutralhost.com together and forward
>> ENUM requests to the appropriate ENUM DNS server is anyone
>> is interested.  I feel like I must be missing something?
>>
>> ---greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Adrian
>>> On 15 Mar 2004, at 14:46, Greg Fausak wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was excited about an enum movement a few months ago.
>>>>
>>>> Would enum work if someone volunteered to forward
>>>> requests?  I think I can build a bind installation
>>>> that would forward requests to the right party.
>>>>
>>>>  Is
>>>> anyone doing something like that?  I'd do it.
>>>>
>>>> ---greg
>>>>
>>>> Juha Heinanen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> i'm reading old emails.  we have official e164.arpa zones delegated in
>>>>> finland for our landline and also for some mobile network numbers.  
>>>>> for
>>>>> example,
>>>>> harjus:~/tut% host -t naptr 0.5.4.9.2.1.4.6.8.5.3.e164.arpa.
>>>>> 0.5.4.9.2.1.4.6.8.5.3.e164.arpa NAPTR 1 1 "u" "E2U+sip" 
>>>>> "!^.*$!sip:+35864129450 at tutpro.com!i" .
>>>>> -- juha
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