Cheers Jonny,

Will look into getting involved, as we do have a VoIP (Asterisk) server, and do want to interconnect with others.

Regards,

Nick Larsen

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonny Martin [mailto:jonny@jonnynet.net]
Sent: Fri 26/01/2007 12:18 AM
To: Nick Larsen
Cc: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] VoIP and NZ ENUM services

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.