On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, at 13:05 [=GMT-0500], John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote:
> > Imagine ICANN controlling the numbering space. > > Well, let me think. Over the last decade or so of my life, I have had > probably five different phone numbers which were assigned to me by a variety > of entities. I've never really cared who assigned them or what the numbers > were, and have a hard enough time remembering my own phone number anyway. > Does this ENUM thing mean that I'll be paying a registration fee to ICANN for > a telephone number or what? I guess they will levy their usual 'tax'. But forget about numbers, use _names_. The special DNS records will work with all domains, not just 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.e164.arpa, but also phone.vlier.net. Type that in your browser. Right now just a special service of one registrar (Enom), and only working for US cell phones, AFAIK, but still.
