Re: Welcome!

[Chip Sharp <chsharp@cisco.com>]

At 03:11 PM 5/17/2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
...snip...
>  i'd like to be able to reach the rest of the SIP-reachable world without 
> using TDM as my fabric.  ITU won't allow that to happen until they're 
> sure they've re-monetized it in ways beneficial to their members.
>
> reinventing TPC.INT wasn't precisely on my list of things to accomplish,
> i just want a richer set of TDM bypass information without waiting for ITU.

FWIW, it isn't necessarily the ITU-T that is holding up deployment of 
e164.arpa.
The IAB selected RIPE NCC to operate e164.arpa.  The instructions it gave 
RIPE NCC for delegation under e164.arpa. can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/enum/instructions.html

As can be seen there, the IAB instructions allow the ITU-T to screen 
requests for delegation of Country Codes.  The procedures ITU-T currently 
follows can be found at: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/enum/.  In short, the 
ITU-T TSB notifies the Member State representative of the request and lets 
the State decide.

So in effect, each country (or group of countries) decides what to do in 
terms of delegating its Country Code.  Country Codes and phone numbers are 
viewed as National Resources by most countries.

So while IAB could have provided different instructions, not including 
ITU-T, it would have then had to be the one that vetted requests for 
Country Code delegations and I don't think it wanted to be involved in a 
political process like that.

And the ITU-T (as an inter-governmental organization) doesn't really have a 
choice as to how it vets potential delegations other than to defer to the 
Member States.

BTW, 1.e164.arpa (NANP) has its own problems since it encompasses multiple 
(18) countries.

Chip



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