[Serusers] Prefix to Domains vs ENUM

Hello Alexander, so, if I'm getting it right: I have 2 possibilities now: use "prefix to domain" rewriting there is a ser module for doing that, but in my opinion it looks pretty lame to keep up to date the association between prefix and phone numbers; when you will have 2.000.000 sip domains who is going to save you ? :) That's the reason why I was asking for a centralized prefix/domains translation table: its seems obvious to me that if everybody is going to decide is own associations things are going to be very funny in a few. use the "ENUM" method That's something like a "dns of phone numbers/sip domains" that's also compatible with the pstn numbering plan for better integration. You resolve the "fake pstn" phone number to obtain a SIP address, complete with domain. The only problem could be that you dont have to remember SIP addresses but very long phone numbers .... :) Am I on the right way to undestand the matter ? Beside this I'm wondering why Italy is out of this interesting ENUM trial ... no one was willing ? Maybe you have find someone here ! :) Monday, November 10, 2003, 5:05:08 PM, you wrote: AM> On (10.11.03 16:42), Alessio Focardi wrote: AM> sorry for my ignorance, E.164 is the ITU-T recommendation for the format AM> of phone numbers. So, an E.164 number is simply a phone number. AM> If you're talking about ENUM entries: AM> You would need to have phone numbers for your users plus a ENUM DNS AM> infrastructure in your country. If you have already a phone number, you AM> could give your users extensions behind that number. AM> Unfortunately, there is no ENUM trial going on in Italy yet, so you AM> won't be able to publish ENUM records for your users in the public DNS AM> in that case, so other users would not be able to find your users via AM> ENUM. AM> But, you could still use ENUM for finding other ENUM users, a currently AM> small, but rapidly growing community. You won't need to keep a "prefix AM> to domain" list for all the other VoIP providers, and your users won't AM> have to remember "which prefix to dial for which provider?" AM> to see a rough sketch how it works, take a look at our presentation at AM> http://enum.nic.at/documents/AETP/Presentations/Austria/0017-2003-07_ENUM-D… AM> I'm happy to supply you with more detail in private mail, i consider AM> that being already quite off topic on the SER users list. Feel free to AM> contact me. AM> cheers AM> axelm -- Best regards, Alessio mailto:alessiof@interconnessioni.it