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

Peter Koch said:
> But the ENUM lookups don't have to be blocking,
> so why not let the client send an ENUM query after every digit (see above
> for prefix/area code considerations)?

Because it's still load on the servers that would be worth reducing.

>> For the server it's a potential 5-fold reduction in the number of queries.
>>  If your switches are doing this lookup for every telephone call that's a
>> *lot* of queries saved.
> In the best case, maybe, but you need the cooperation of the clients

As is true of many optimisation techniques. That shouldn't be an issue for
this use case.

> and you
> add a lot of complexity to the ENUM tree.

I don't see how you can describe this as "a lot".

> Apart from that, there's also lots of optimization opportunity in the client
> if you just let the client remember what a "full number" was; I've been
> told this is already done.

What do you mean by a "full number"? The whole problem is that it isn't a
simple thing to determine.

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