Source: http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press/releases/2001/18.html

Press Release - International Telecommunication Union
Progress achieved towards implementing electronic numbering "ENUM"

Geneva, 1 October 2001 — The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has
achieved further progress in advancing work to enable the commercial
implementation of an Internet telephone number mapping protocol, better
known as ENUM.  Study Group 2 of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization
Sector is currently hammering out the principles and procedures for the
administration of ENUM as well as the framework that will set out the role
of ITU.

Under the proposed ENUM protocol and subject to national authorities and
end-user approval, it will be possible to use a single number to access many
types of terminal(s) and services — phone, fax, e-mail, pager, mobilephones,
SIP telephony address, a website or any other resources that can be
described by an Internet addressing scheme — at home, at work or while
roaming.   ...

For further background on mapping of telephone numbers into the DNS, see
SETEL Special Briefing No 07/2001, 11 September 2001
<www.setel.com.au/publications/public/briefings/sb0107.htm>.


Ian Johnston
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