[LINK] Enum submissions

[Roger Clarke]

ian.johnston@infobrokers.com.au posted to link:
>See also the ENUM material of the ACIF Next Generation Network 
>Framework Options
>Group (NGN FOG) accessible under What's New at www.acif.org.au/acif/index.cfm:
>FOG/03/006
>Infosys Enum specifications1
>http://www.acif.org.au/ngn_fog/files/FOG03_006.pdf
>FOG/03/001
>ENUM
>http://www.acif.org.au/ngn_fog/files/FOG03_001.pdf

Thanks, Ian.  I'm finishing a paper on ENUM, for posting to link 
shortly;  and I didn't have these gems available to me.

Note that a Site-Search on ACIF with the string 'enum' *still* 
returns zero hits, after several years of activity in this 
ultra-secretive, pseudo-consultative, public interest-excluding 
industry association.  FOG is an *excellent* term for it.

I'm only a very small god in matters technical, but the following 
statements in the second of the two files above (which is PowerPoint 
slides expressed in PDF) give me pause to be concerned about the 
writer's grasp of the topic:

Slide 4, Bullet 3
The correct operation of the DNS is essential for the operation of 
the Internet.

Slide 5, Bullet 2
[By implication, in every case] A request for information goes to the 
root server for the domain (.au in [the case of www.acif.org.au])

Back to school, fellers ...

With the bumbling incompetence typical of this lot, there appear to 
be no email-addresses anywhere.  Ian, if you know where these jokers 
are hiding, please feel free to pass my scathing comments on to them. 
Maybe there's an explanation somewhere that will cause me to 
apologise;  but I'm not feeling particularly insecure right now ...

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