Wednesday, March 15, 2006
VON Day 0 - Innovation by Lawyers
Not all sessions where equally interesting, so I checked my e-mails in the mean-time. BTW, this time the VON WiFi network is working like charm. Since my blog is also about ENUM, I have to report the following message received from the (US) ENUM Forum Adminstrator:
In short: the US ENUM Trial will go nowhere (maybe on purpose). This is an innovation taken hostage by laywers. The ENUM LLC is now fiddling around since one year setting up a crippled trial, and reading the MoU it will take another year until a real trial is on its way. And afterwards there will still be unresolved privacy and reliabilty issues. I have no idea what should be trialed here? That the DNS works? Who cares that mega businesses worldwide run with the DNS since years. That ENUM works? Who cares about commercial ENUM services in developing countries such as Austria and Germany, not to mention the private ENUM applications such as XConnect. How to run a DNS registry? Ok, ask e.g. Verisign. How to deal with phone numbers and number portability. Ask Neustar and/or Telcordia.
If the Internet would have been done in the same way, we would still have the Arpanet with 15 hosts and eventually have a trial of an e-mail service. Ok, now I see: we would not have a spam problem. Not to mention pishing.
The MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR AN ENUM TRIAL IN THE UNITED STATES is now posted at the following address: http://enumllc.com/TPAC_Trial_MoU.docOf course I had immediatetely to peek at it.
This is a Memorandum of Understanding by and between the Country Code 1 ENUM Limited Liability Company and entities wishing participate in a public trial of ENUM in the United States under the 1.e164.arpa domain.
In short: the US ENUM Trial will go nowhere (maybe on purpose). This is an innovation taken hostage by laywers. The ENUM LLC is now fiddling around since one year setting up a crippled trial, and reading the MoU it will take another year until a real trial is on its way. And afterwards there will still be unresolved privacy and reliabilty issues. I have no idea what should be trialed here? That the DNS works? Who cares that mega businesses worldwide run with the DNS since years. That ENUM works? Who cares about commercial ENUM services in developing countries such as Austria and Germany, not to mention the private ENUM applications such as XConnect. How to run a DNS registry? Ok, ask e.g. Verisign. How to deal with phone numbers and number portability. Ask Neustar and/or Telcordia.
If the Internet would have been done in the same way, we would still have the Arpanet with 15 hosts and eventually have a trial of an e-mail service. Ok, now I see: we would not have a spam problem. Not to mention pishing.
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