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ENUM Reference

US Federal Government

IETF Telephone Number Mapping (enum) Working Group

ITU

IAB

RIPE NCC (technical administrator of e164.apra)

ICANN

International

Directory Services Projects

ENUM Projects

Other Directory Services Projects  

Links

• Australia ENUM
• Austrian ENUM Website
• China, Enum in
• DTI Enum
• ENUM in Nederlands
• ENUM Forums
• ENUMNic

Privacy Concerns

Papers

• Enum: Mapping Telephone Numbers Onto The Internet Potential Benefits with Public Policy Risks, CDT 4/30/03
• Roger Clark, ENUM - A Case Study in Social Irresponsibility, ANU 1/31/03
• ENUM-Mapping the E.164 Number Space into the DNS by Geoff Huston, Telstra, IPJ 10/9/02
• J. Scott Marcus, FCC, A Perspective on ENUM (ppt)
• Lampert & O'Connor, P.C. ENUM: The Internet Numbers Game  October 2001
• Craig McTaggart, E PLURIBUS ENUM:  Unifying International Telecommunications Networks and Governance, TPRC Paper
• Junseok Hwang, Analyzing ENUM Service and Administration from the Bottom Up: The addressing system for IP telephony and beyond, TPRC Paper
• Robert Cannon, Cybertelecom, ENUM Public Policy Considerations, TPRC Paper
• Tony Rutkowski, DeJure ENUM, F.500, and Lessons Learned

News & Blogs

• Will ENUM Deliver?, CircleID 3/24/2009
• New directions for ENUM, Telephony 12/12/2006
• E-num: The View from Washington, NTIA 4/24/2006
• ETSI Tests ENUM, VoIP and ENUM 6/7/2005
• ENUM at VON Europe 2005, ITU 6/3/2005
• Two ETSI Documents on ENUM published, VoIP and ENUM 5/13/2005
• ENUM -- It's All In The Numbers, TMC 4/14/03
• Out Of Phone Numbers? Add Digits, Wired 2/19/03
• One Number To Call Them All!, Reuters 2/14/03
• US Backs New System for Net, Phone Numbering, Internet News 2/14/03
• US gets behind ENUM net phone initiative, CW 2/14/03
• Commerce backs convergence protocol, Wash Tech 2/14/03
• US backs merging Net, phone numbers, ZDNet 2/14/03
• US to work toward electronic numbering, RCR 2/14/03
• US backs new communications initiative, Elec News Net 2/14/03
• US endorses one person, one number, ITWeb 2/14/03
• US endorses merging phone, Net numbers, Tech Central 2/14/03
• Australia, US promote Internet numbering move, ZDNet 2/14/03
• US gets behind ENUM Net phone initiative, Info World 2/14/03
• US backs plan to merge Net, phone numbers, Globe 2/14/03
• US gets behind ENUM 'Net phone initiative, NWFusion 2/14/03
• US endorses merging telephone, Internet numbers, Boston.com 2/14/03
• VISIONng Expands Worldwide ENUM Service to the States And Beyond, Yahoo 2/12/03
• Parsing the Hype from the Hope: Will ENUM Spark Changes in Telecom?, CircleID 10/9/02
• Phone Home Enum's potential applications aren't as widespread as promised, New Architect 6/10/02
• Calling All Endpoints: ENUM Will Play Key Role In Enabling IP-Based Communications Services, IP Telephony 5/15/02 (article by NetNumbers Author)
• Listing again (ENUM), Economist 4/22/02
• NTT joins Web services directory effort, CNET 1/17/02
• 'Communications Chaos' - Can You Defeat It? (antidote to the plethora of communications devices - unified messaging), Newsfactor 11/7/01
• Unified Messaging helps organize computer, phone, fax communications, Nando 11/5/01
• Phone number to e-mail service raises privacy concerns, CW 10/5/01
• Single-Number Plan Raises Privacy Fears, LA Times 9/5/01
• ENUM - CLEARING THE PATH - Electronic Numbering Could Make Voice Over the Internet a Reality, BW 8/8/01
• The Politics Of Naming : On the road to ENUM: competition and complexity., Comm Conv 7/19/01
• Vendors move to bridge Web and phone network, CNN 7/10/01
• Microsoft, VeriSign Announce Internet Tie-Up, Reuters 07/10/01
• VeriSign Announces Plans for Global Voice Registry Registry will enable callers to "voice dial" any business from any Phone, Verisign 7/19/01
• IP Phone Home (ENUM) - summary of ENUM Ad Hoc Report, NWFusion 07/10/01
• ENUM: Phone Numbers Meet the Net, CC 07/09/01
• Richard Shockey, ENUM: Phone Numbers Meet the Net, Communications Convergence (July 2001)
• Marc Robins, ENUM's Got Your Number, Internet Telephony (June 2001)
• Kareen Frascaria, ENUM convertit les numéros de téléphone en nom de domaine, France.internet.com (May 6, 2001)
• Anthony Rutkowski, the ENUM golden tree, info (arpil 2001)
• NetNumber Signs Webley as First Service Provider Customer for ENUM Registry Services; Agreement Marks the World's First Deployment and Use of ENUM Registry Services, Business Wire 5/23/01
• ENUM Arrives, Computer Telephony Magazine (April 14, 2001)
• ENUM Spawns Partnerships Across VoIP Industry Internet Telephony Magazine May 2001
• Kevin Werbach, ENUM: The Addressing Debate, Release 1.0 (24 April 2001).
• Internet-Based Single-Number Plan Starts Tug-Of-War, Newsbytes 4/23/01
• Bringing the phone online at NetNumber, Mass High Tech (March 2001)
• Dialed in to the Net, C|NET 2/21/01
• VeriSign's wireless welcome: Phone numbers as urls, ZDNET 2/21/01
• .tel Wants to Set Telephone Number Policy Afternic 10/30/00
• Linking IP Addresses to Phones Tele.com 10/30/00
• DOT TEL WANTS TO SET E.164 NUMBER POLICY  ICB 10/19/2000 Registration Required
• Pulver.com has applied to ICANN to create the new gTLD ".tel" reportedly to be used for ENUM purposes.
• See Pulver's statement: Is the ITU Promoting National and International Regulation of VoIP and the Internet? September 26, 2000

Timeline

• Apr 1-4, 2003 CFP2003 Enum Tutorial and ENUM panel.
• Dec 2002 ITU-T Study Group 2 meeting updates on ENUM trials
• Nov 18, 2002 ENUM WG IETF 55 Atlanta GA.
• August 2002 Roundtable on Convergence of Communications Technologies (ENUM), Dept of Commerce NTIA
• Feb 8 2002 ITU ENUM Tutorial Workshop
• Jan 22 2002 3rd Meeting of the ENUM Forum
• Oct 27-29, 2001 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference Alexandria VA, ENUM Session
• Sept 4-14 2001 ITU-T SG2 Meeting (submissions from SG2 Rapporteurs can be considered and adopted)
• Aug 15 2001 State Department ITAC SGA Meeting State Dept ENUM Notice, State 8/06/01
• July 31 2001 State Department ITAC SGA Meeting where Ad Hoc Report will be presented.
• July 30 2001 AT&T Meeting about setting up an ENUM Incubator through ATIS.  Point of contact Steven D. Lind, AT&T, Tel: (973) 236-6787, Fax: (973) 236-6452, sdlind@att.com
• July 12 2001 WCOM Telephone Conference about setting up an ENUM Forum Through ATIS contact Linda Taylor 972-729-5134 or via e-mail at linda.j.taylor@wcom.com to register
• 25-29 June 2001 ITUStudy Group 2 Rapporteurs Group Meeting
• 7-8 June 2001 OECD Workshop on Internet Traffic Exchange See Session 5 ENUM INFORMATION SESSION
• Jim Casey, Director of Public Policy and Business Development, Neustar
• Anthony Rutkowski, Vice President for Internet Strategy, Verisign
• Ewan Sutherland, Executive Director, INTUG
• Carsten Hess, Director for European Affairs, WorldCom
• 5 June 2001 DTI ENUM Workshop
• Bob Shaw, ITU, Global ENUM Implementation, DTI ENUM Workshop (June 5, 2001)
• 18-19 June 2001 SGA Ad Hoc US Administration ENUM Issues at ATIS
• 5 June 2001 DTI ENUM Workshop
• 9-10 May 2001 SGA Ad Hoc Us Administrative ENUM Issues
• 28-29 March 2001SGA Ad Hoc Us Administrative ENUM Issues Meeting at WCOM Wash DC
• 20 March 2001 VON Conference Arizona with ENUM Update Session by Neustar and NetNumbers
• 7-9 March 2001ITU World Telecom Policy Forum: IP Telephony
• 12-13 Feb 2001 SGA Ad Hoc Us Administrative ENUM Issues Meeting at Mitretek
• 23 January - 2 February 2001 ITU-T Study Group 2 Meeting
• 23 January 2001 through February 2, 20001 SG 2 and its Working Parties  Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance   Switzerland
• 17 January 2001 ITU ENUM Workshop  Administrative Issues for Regulators,  Policy Makers and Numbering Authorities Agenda
• 18 Dec 2000 NTIA Roundtable on ENUM. Fed Reg Notice.
• 10-15 December 2000 49th IETF Meeting San Diego
• 14 December 2000 1:00 pm ENUM WG Session
• 13-16 November 2000 ICANN Meeting concerning gTLD applications including Pulver's ".tel"
• 19-26 October 2000:  Working Party 1/2, of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) held a meeting of its collaborators in Berlin Germany
• 11 October 2000:  Pulver.com submits application to ICANN for gTLD ".tel"
• September 2000: IETF releases "E.164 number and DNS" RFC 2916
• September 2000:  Pulver creates the Internet Telephony Addressing Board
• 14 September 2000:  E164.arpa created and assigned to RIPE-NCC
• 26 September 2000: Telcordia and VeriSign Announce Agreement to Host Open Enum Trial Press Release
• August 1, 2000 Telephone Number Mapping WG (ENUM), IETF 48 Pittsburgh Minutes
• 25-27 January 2000 The International Telecommunications Union sponsored an IP-Telecoms Interworking Workshop focusing on Numbering, Naming, Addressing, and Routing that was held in Geneva
• 8 Nov 1999: First Scheduled meeting of IETF ENUM WG
• 2 Nov 1999:  IETF ENUM WG mailing list established

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