[Enum] "This is a contribution to educate us..." ?

["Jim Fleming" <[e-mail]>]

From: "Kevin McCandless" <[e-mail]>
"This is a contribution to educate us..."
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It appears that education, especially in the .US, is very one-sided...
...do you really think enlightened people are fooled any more ?

Jim Fleming
http://IPv8.isfun.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin McCandless" <[e-mail]>
To: "Jeff Williams" <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Enum] RFC 3482 on Number Portability in the Global Switched Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview


> Jeff:
> 
> This is a contribution to educate us on Number Portability.  We should be
> glad that a company like Neustar understands this complex service.  What it
> has to do with ENUM is still anyone's guess.
> 
> K...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stastny Richard [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:16 AM
> > To: Jeff Williams; [e-mail]
> > Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> > [e-mail]; Jeff Neuman
> > Subject: RE: [Enum] RFC 3482 on Number Portability in the Global
> > Switched Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview
> > 
> > 
> > Jeff,
> > I do not read this.
> > So what is your problem with this informational document?
> > I there anything wrong in it?
> > Richard
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeff Williams [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:13 AM
> > > To: [e-mail]
> > > Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; 
> > > [e-mail]; [e-mail]; Jeff Neuman
> > > Subject: Re: [Enum] RFC 3482 on Number Portability in the 
> > > Global Switched Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview
> > > 
> > > 
> > > RFC Editor and all,
> > > 
> > >   Looks an awful lot like a Nuestar/IEGF document/RFC to me.  
> > > Has Nuestar taken over a percentage of the IETF recently?
> > > 
> > > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > 
> > > > A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC 
> > libraries.
> > > >
> > > >         RFC 3482
> > > >
> > > >         Title:      Number Portability in the Global Switched
> > > >                     Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview
> > > >         Author(s):  M. Foster, T. McGarry, J. Yu
> > > >         Status:     Informational
> > > >         Date:       February 2003
> > > >         Mailbox:    [e-mail], 
> > > [e-mail],
> > > >                     [e-mail]
> > > >         Pages:      30
> > > >         Characters: 78552
> > > >         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None
> > > >
> > > >         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-enum-e164-gstn-np-05.txt
> > > >
> > > >         URL:       ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3482.txt
> > > >
> > > > This document provides an overview of E.164 telephone number 
> > > > portability (NP) in the Global Switched Telephone Network (GSTN).
> > > >
> > > > NP is a regulatory imperative seeking to liberalize local 
> > telephony 
> > > > service competition, by enabling end-users to retain 
> > > telephone numbers 
> > > > while changing service providers.  NP changes the 
> > > fundamental nature 
> > > > of a dialed E.164 number from a hierarchical physical 
> > > routing address 
> > > > to a virtual address, thereby requiring the transparent 
> > > translation of 
> > > > the later to the former.  In addition, there are various 
> > regulatory 
> > > > constraints that establish relevant parameters for NP 
> > > implementation, 
> > > > most of which are not network technology specific.  
> > > Consequently, the 
> > > > implementation of NP behavior consistent with applicable 
> > regulatory 
> > > > constraints, as well as the need for interoperation with 
> > > the existing 
> > > > GSTN NP implementations, are relevant topics for numerous 
> > > areas of IP
> > > > telephony works-in-progress with the IETF.
> > > >
> > > > This document is a product of the Telephone Number 
> > Mapping Working 
> > > > Group of the IETF.
> > > >
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