On 30/12/2008, at 7:56 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
Am I missing something, or is enum a nice technical solution which can, almost by definition, never be deployed?
enum itself can easily be deployed: there's no reason an alternative enum registry couldn't be built under e164.*.nz without needing any permission from anyone. The only drawback is that software wouldn't be preconfigured to look there, but how much software already looks at 4.6.e164.arpa anyway? I don't work with VoIP every day, so maybe e164 has been widely deployed while I wasn't looking, but I'd be surprised... Maybe, if an alternative registry was set up and proved to be reasonably popular, MED could be convinced to hand over 4.6.e164.arpa, and e164.*.nz could just become an alias. That's probably a pretty big maybe, but the alternative registry would still be useful if that didn't happen. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Network Engineer, Unleash ddi: +64 3 978 1222 mob: +64 21 129 9458