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June 5, 2002
The Internet Architecture Board and
The Internet Architecture Board and International Telecommunications Union have announced interim procedures for ENUM registration. No clue what ENUM is? I'm not surprised. It's a standard for mapping telephone numbers (and other personal contact information) to Internet protocol numbers. In other words, connecting the addressing systems of telecom and the Net. ENUM might be a big deal, as significant for finding people as domain names are for finding Websites. If ENUM takes off, it could be a boost to IP telephony and new Net-based personal communications services. Or ENUM might wind up as a little-used beaurocratic footnote, like the X.400 directory standard. I could see it going either way....
Posted by Kevin Werbach at June 5, 2002 10:24 AM
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