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| | VON Magazine :: July 2005 :: ENUM: A Great Idea But..., by Richard Grigonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | ENUM, which originated with Cisco Engineer Patrik Faltstrom and the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) Telephone Number Mapping working group, is a DNS-based service that maps a standard telephone number to a list of contact URLs. |
 | | Thus, the ENUM protocol is a big address book that makes it possible to convert e.164 telephone numbers into Internet domain names and then to associate them with services for communication through the associated URI. |
 | | This is the open, global ENUM, which dictates that the domain names are in e164.arpa, that there's a regulatory oversight of it, that the ITU is involved, etc. |
| www.vonmag.com /issue/2005/jul/features/enum.asp (2096 words) |
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