Re: Send-N draft: draft-bellis-enum-send-n-02 published

"Clive D.W. Feather" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.enum
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Lawrence Conroy said:
> Let me get this straight - this whole thing is being developed because  
> some historical choices by a Regulator in the UK covering freephone  
> numbers means that there are numbers in that range with two different  
> lengths?

It's not just that case. The Austrian numbering plan has related issues, if
I'm understanding correctly. And no doubt other countries too.

> This is not an ENUM issue - it's a general issue with that particular  
> part of that country's number plan.

It's also an issue of how to get dial plan information out to everyone who
might possibly need it. That needs to be a pull system, not a push one,
since there will be far too many potential users to keep a master list; we
don't even know who all those users might be. It needs to allow for
delegated databases rather than requiring a single authoritative source who
has to update everything, since we don't know how often updates will happen
(often in Austria, I believe). It ought to allow for cacheing. And it ought
not to require everything to be downloaded again just because one leaf of
the tree has changed.

Remind you of anything?

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