On 25/01/2007, at 11:39 PM, Nick Larsen wrote:
Does anyone know the outcome of the ENUM trial in NZ (by InternetNZ), or is it still going?
It's on hold at the moment, due to a mixture of resource constraints due to INZ's and Telecommunications Carrier Forum's involvement in Telecommunications Regulation issues over the past wee while. So it's a victim of priorities. (And of course, the best way to influence those priorities if one is not happy with them is to get involved and join the society.) <http://www.internetnz.net.nz/pubs/activity/2006/november/2006-11-30- enum> has the goods.
I've researched it a bit, but it seems the trial has ended (or maybe I just haven't searched hard enough ;)).
The latter ;).
Any info on ENUM in New Zealand or a pointer in the right direction would be great.
It will be interesting to see where it goes. Unfortunately ENUM has been more than a bit hyped over the past few years. ENUM is not a VoIP service in it's own right, and only works well when all voice providers willingly partake. Given that ENUM requires involvement of the large players, it will be all to easy for the whole thing to get bogged down. Technically ENUM is fine, but I've yet to hear a reason for deploying it that is not in fact an argument for greater (in some cases, any) co-operation between existing voice providers. If ENUM is the pretence for achieving this, then that's a good outcome all the same. So when the trial gets back underway, get involved and we'll all see where it all heads. Meantime get your VoIP on if you haven't already, and encourage all to interconnect widely. Cheers, Jonny.