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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, at 20:07 [=GMT-0000], Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> Folks,
> Please have a look at the presentation on ENUM delivered today at the Board 
> (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/montevideo/archive/pres/enum.html).
> I think that this raises matters to be debated in the DNSO, like:
> - the use of the DNS for a different purpose
> - the implication on policy of the possible implementation (is the service 
> optional? What about the impact on privacy? Who will manage it (guidelines 
> for cost?), and so on)
> Personally, I commented in the public forum that on one hand we experience 
> delays over delays in the introduction of a handful of "normal" TLDs, with 
> concerns about the stability of the Internet, and on the other hand the 
> Board seems to accept without discussion an use of the DNS that is not what 
> it was intended for (with a potential of hundreds of millions entries below 
> e164.arpa, and a nesting level of some 15).
> What do you think?

Although I think the questions you raise are very serious, I am not
worried. Enum will not fly. Who wants to remember numbers? ibm.com is
not more trouble to key into most mobiles than 8392846392.

-- 
Marc@Schneiders.ORG

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