[LINK] ENUM [Was Re: Ported telephone numbers

[Roger Clarke]

>On Friday, 12 January 2018 12:43:52 PM AEDT Paul Brooks wrote:
>> I think what you're looking for is RFC 6116 ENUM - a DNS lookup of a telephone number to a URI such as a SIP address, and RFC 5067, RFC 5526 "Infrastructure ENUM", and RFC 3824 "Using E.164 number with SIP".

The design and at least initial implementation of ENUM was one of the most diabolical demonstrations of numbskull, blinkered and arrogant engineering thinking that I've ever come across.  

(For clarity, no, I'm not blaming Paul for that).

But I've never gone back to find out whether the final implementation(s?) of it are as gross and dangerous as they appeared likely to be.

Here are papers explaining why I have such a strongly negative attitude to the conduct of the project, and, I fear, to its outcomes as well:  

http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/enum.html          (2002, short version)

http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/ENUM0507.html      (2005)
http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/enumISOC02.html    (2002-03)
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/SocRespISOC02.html (2002)

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