[asterisk-users] Please some enlightment on ENUM !!

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Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Leif Neland schrieb:
>   
>> Norbert Zawodsky skrev:
>>     
>
>   
>>> The number +43-1-3207978 is my telephone number. I "own" it as long as I
>>> pay for it. And with extra digits behind it I can do whatever I like. I
>>> can create any extension - physical or virtual. I can attach a phone to
>>> extension 12, attach a virtual fax server for extension 12 to extension
>>> 99912 or could fire up my toaster if I call extension 911.  I can invent
>>> any numbering scheme for my company. That's a fact!  Again - At least
>>> here in Austria !! (can't speak for other countries)
>>>       
>> Invent all you want, nobody can call those fantasy-numbers anyway. 
>> Perhaps, a fraction of a percent, who are using ENUM.
>>     
>
> Leif, ever heard of direct inward dialing and PRI?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_inward_dialing
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_rate_interface
> You can actually own a block of numbers like 01234567xxxx.
> You are free to map these xxxx DID numbers to extensions or do
> what ever you like. And it is guaranteed that nothing in the
> 01234567... range will ever be assigned to a different PSTN
> subscriber.
>
>
>     Philipp Kempgen
>   
Exactly. And in such a case, this is exactly what the ENUM DNS is
designed for -- handling those blocks.  NOT for creating additional
digits on top of one existing number.

It may work in Austria, and may even be valid in Austria. But if that's
the case, it's because Austrian dialing is a complete hack -- NOT
because that's the way it's intended OR designed.

N.