[Asterisk-Users] Whats ENUM??

[Thilo Salmon]

> >As the owner of a phone number you could provide information within your
> >zone on how you prefer to be contacted. E.g."1st call
> >tim at 123.123.123.123 via sip, if unavailable send email to
> 
> great idea
> 
> >jeff at somewhere.net".
> 
> this part i dont like (just like telmarketers and spammers and any
> business who considers any unsolicited commercial email is a right to
> use.

I would expect this part to become optional in most countries (just like
directory services). Think of it as a machine readable form of a free
internet listing service. Only it uses "real life" phone numbers as a
lookup key and is part of the DNS.

Thilo