[asterisk-biz] WTB: CNAM database

[Alex Balashov]

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CNAM

VIP Carrier wrote:

> Okey!
> where can I get CNAM info for some of my DID's?
> 
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Alex Balashov 
> <abalashov at evaristesys.com <mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Indeed.
> 
>     Significantly - if irrelevantly - the same is true of the LERG and of
>     LNP dips.  In the case of the former, it's Telcordia protecting the
>     revenue stream derived from the exclusivity of the information, and in
>     the case of the latter it is dressed up as a matter of confidentiality
>     and privacy vis-a-vis the end-users and carriers.
> 
>     Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> 
>      > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 22:22 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote:
>      >> VIP Carrier wrote:
>      >>
>      >>> So show is maintaining it?
>      >> Mostly the ILECs.
>      >>
>      >
>      > also note that most ilecs do not like caching, reselling, or many
>     other
>      > things. I had not really been following this thread, so I dont
>     know if
>      > this was brought up before or not.
>      >
>      > Generally when you get CNAM data, you have to sign a contract that
>      > prevents you from doing any of the things that decreases the ilec
>      > revenue stream, and that if you give this information to anyone they
>      > have to have similar restrictions placed upon them to prevent a
>     backdoor
>      > type approach where you set up two companies, one that just forwards
>      > info to the other who caches and distributes it at will.
>      >
>      > So if you do get access to a CNAM database be sure to look at the
>      > contracts and make certain its usable and dont just trust that it
>     will
>      > be.
>      >
>      >
>      >
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