ENUM in neighbor countries: Austria (+43) Alexander Mayrhofer ENUM-Day, Prague, Sept. 2007
Agenda History of ENUM in Austria Current status Registration statistics The range Standardization activities Related activities
History of ENUM in Austria Summer 2002 – Trial initiated Dec 2004 – enum.at founded, production registry opened May 2005 – "ENUM" numbers available (March 2006 – IENUM wins +353 bid) June 2006 – infrastructure ENUM trial started
Current Status 13 registrars, half of them actively selling ENUM products Major business models: Bundling DSL with ENUM-enabled soft-PBX Upgrading legacy-PBX systems with Asterisk Independent VoIP accounts using no real business model (yet) for mobile numbers :-/ (Instant Messaging vs. SMS?)
Current status cont'd Number ranges: geo, 0800, 0780, 0720, private networks, mobile Registry EPP-based no direct registrations (registrar model) Charging: number count (User-ENUM) €0.1 – €0.5 per number and month €250 per month minimum charge Infrastructure ENUM: transaction based
ENUM domain statistics 7832 numbers as of
The number range Works like a "common" internet domain register a free ENUM domain – get the respective number with it – enter SIP URI – finished! Gateway "built into" the PSTN (obligation to carriers) PSTN Internet ENUM DNS
Standardization contributing to IETF working groups several drafts ENUM: combined infrastructure/user ENUM: validation process SPEERMINT, ECRIT, GEOPRIV finished documents RFC 4725 – ENUM validation architecture RFC 4969 – "vCard" Enumservice RFC 4979 – "XMPP" (Jabber) Enumservice
Related activities Registry system and Registrar frontend exported to Ireland (IENUM, +353) VoIP consulting (ipcom.at) ENUM Federation ("free your voip")