Re: Overlap dialing user experience (Re: I-D Action: New draft - draft-bellis-enum-send-n-00)

Brian

> I think the mechanism needed by carriers to route calls is a heck of a 
lot
> easier to solve then a mechanism needed by a phone to dial a hotel that
> decided on its own how long it's numbers are.
> 
> If you want to generalize to "needed by originators" instead of 
carriers, it
> doesn't change the problem.
> 
> The number of digits needed to route to the termination domain is 
determined
> by a block assignment by a number administrator.  There is one per 
country
> of them.  Creating a system where we define a way for them to 
communicate
> block assignments seems to be a pretty tractable problem.

There is an assumption there that the number structure created by the 
national number administrator is the same as the structure within the ENUM 
tree.  This is only true in the pathological case of a fully populated 
tree.  In User ENUM that simply will not be the case.

What this draft does is allow the manager of a part of an ENUM tree to 
describe the structure of that part of the tree and thereby make the 
dialling process more efficient. 

In the case of User ENUM this could be the T1 registry.  As numbers are 
registered with them they would create and/or modify send-n records higher 
up the tree from where the numbers are provisioned.  These send-n records 
would therefore be quite dynamic, responding to the local growth in user 
ENUM.

Jay