Re: DUNDi

[Antonio Querubin <tony@aloha.net>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:13:31 -0700
> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
> To: Antonio Querubin <tony@aloha.net>
> Cc: VoIP Peering <voip-peering@psg.com>
> Subject: Re: DUNDi
>
> > ENUM can be as decentralized as the zone authority wills it to be.
>
> not exactly, it is as the PARTENT zone authority wills it to be.
> it is hierarchical from the itu, which has been highly controlling,
> blocking, ...
>
> and, in 2033, when the +1 is finally delegated, let's see how
> someone ties in to exchange routes to randy@psg.com.

Oh come on now - don't need to be so pessimistic :)  If the VOIP community
feels the delegation of e164.arpa zones continues to proceed at a snail's
pace, other ad-hoc enum zones will just pop up - they already are.  The
same type of political pressures and decentralization issues that forced
the creation of alternate domain registrars and TLDs are already at work.

What we could use as a temporary measure is a clearing house for all of
these ad-hoc zones - oh joy...  At some point the Internet will settle on
a real operational enum root zone.  If that turns out to be e164.arpa then
ok, but it really doesn't have to be does it?


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