Telephone Number Mapping (enum)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2007-09-26

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    Richard Shockey  <[email protected]>
    Patrik Faltstrom  <[email protected]>

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director(s):
    Jon Peterson  <[email protected]>
    Cullen Jennings  <[email protected]>

Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Advisor:
    Jon Peterson  <[email protected]>

Secretary(ies):
    Alexander Mayrhofer  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

The ENUM working group has defined a DNS-based architecture and
protocol
[RFC 3761] by which an E.164 number, as defined in ITU Recommendation
E.164, can be expressed as a Fully Qualified Domain Name in a specific
Internet Infrastructure domain defined for this purpose (e164.arpa).

Background:

E.164 numbers are globally unique, language independent identifiers for
resources on Public Telecommunication Networks that can support many
different services and protocols. There is an emerging desire for
network operators to utilize aspects of RFC 3761 to discover points of
interconnection necessary to terminate communications sessions
identified by a E164 number,in addition to identifying end point
protocols and services.

Working Group Revised Goals and Scope:

1. The working group will update RFC 3761 and advance to Draft
Standard.

2. The working group will examine and document the use of RFC 3761 to
facilitate network interconnection for services using E.164 addressing.
The working group will coordinate its activities with other IETF
working
groups, existing or to be chartered, that are investigating elements of
peering and or interconnection for VoIP or other services that
typically
use E.164 addressing.

3. The working group will continue examine and document various aspects
of ENUM administrative and /or operational procedures irrespective of
whether e164.arpa domain is used.

4. The working group will also examine the use of RFC 3761 technology
for storing and delivering other information about services addressed
by
E.164 numbers, for example PSTN call routing and signaling data.

5. The Working Group will continue to maintain appropriate contact and
liaison with other standards bodies and groups, specifically ITU-T SG2,
to provide technical or educational information and address, as needed,
issues related to the use of the E.164 numbering plan for services on
IP
networks. In addition the Working Group will continue to encourage the
exchange of technical information within the emerging global ENUM
community as well as documentation on practical experiences with
implementations, alternate technology uses and the administration and
provisioning of RFC 3761.

6. As described in RFC 3761, the IETF documents and registers the
Enumservices. While extant, it is the ENUM working group that performs
the technical review and development of the Enumservices for the
Internet community. The working group determines whether to advance
them
and how to progress them technically. Coordination with other WGs will
be taken into account on these.

Other than Enumservices, all proposed deliverables of the working group
will be discussed with and approved by the Area Directors, who may
require wider review due to the broad impact of the subject.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Initial draft of Service ENUM Requirements

  Done         Initial draft of ENUM Protocol

  Done         Revised draft of ENUM Protocol

  Done         Submit ENUM Protocol document to IESG for publication as
               Proposed

  Done         Revise and update RFC 2916 appropriate to DDDS (revision of
               2915)

  Done         ENUM service registrations for SIP and H.323

  Done         Enumservice Registration for Local Number Portability and
               Related Data as a Proposed Standard

  Done         Requirements for Carrier Interconnection using ENUM as an
               Informational

  Done         Carrier Interconnection using ENUM as a Proposed Standard

  Jul 2006       ENUM Privacy and Security Considerations as an Informational

  Aug 2006       Advancement of RFC 3761 to Draft Standard


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Jul 2004 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-enum-experiences-09.txt>
               ENUM Implementation Issues and Experiences

Feb 2006 Nov 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-enumservices-guide-06.txt>
               Guide and Template for IANA Registrations of Enumservices

Mar 2006 Jul 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-calendar-service-03.txt>
               A Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Service Registration for
               Internet Calendaring Services

Apr 2006 Dec 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-infrastructure-07.txt>
               The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic
               Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application for
               Infrastructure ENUM

Apr 2006 Oct 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-cnam-07.txt>
               IANA Registration for an Enumservice Calling Name Delivery
               (CNAM) Information and IANA Registration for URI type
               'pstndata' URI type 'pstn'

Aug 2006 Oct 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-combined-08.txt>
               Combined User and Infrastructure ENUM in the e164.arpa tree

Sep 2006 Sep 2006   <draft-ietf-enum-edns0-00.txt>
               ENUM Requirement for EDNS0 Support

Oct 2006 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-enum-3761bis-02.txt>
               The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic
               Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)

Jan 2007 Oct 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-unused-03.txt>
               IANA Registration for Enumservice UNUSED

Apr 2007 Oct 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-softswitch-req-01.txt>
               ENUM-based Softswitch Requirement

Nov 2007 Nov 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-x-service-regs-00.txt>
               Registration of Enumservices for experimental, private or trial
               use

Nov 2007 Dec 2007   <draft-ietf-enum-vmsg-01.txt>
               IANA Registration of Enumservices for Voice and Video Messaging

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC2916 PS   Sep 2000    E.164 number and DNS

RFC3482 I    Feb 2003    Number Portability in the Global Switched Telephone
                      Network (GSTN): An Overview

RFC3764Standard  May 2004    enumservice registration for SIP Addresses-of-Record

RFC3762Standard  May 2004    ENUM Service Registration for H.323 URL

RFC3761Standard  May 2004    The E.164 to URI DDDS Application (ENUM)

RFC3953Standard  Jan 2005    Enumservice Registration for Presence Services

RFC4002Standard  Feb 2005    IANA Registration for ENUMservices web and ft

RFC4114Standard  Jun 2005    E.164 Number Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning
                      Protocol (EPP)

RFC4355Standard  Jan 2006    IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems
                      and sms

RFC4415 PS   Feb 2006    IANA Registration for Enumservice Voice

RFC4414 PS   Feb 2006    An ENUM Registry Type for the Internet Registry
                      Information Service (IRIS)

RFC4769 PS   Nov 2006    IANA Registration for an Enumservice Containing Public
                      Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Signaling Information

RFC4725 I    Nov 2006    ENUM Validation Architecture

RFC4979 PS   Aug 2007    IANA Registration for Enumservice 'XMPP'

RFC4969 PS   Aug 2007    IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice

RFC5028 PS   Oct 2007    A Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Service Registration
                      for Instant Messaging (IM) Services

RFC5067 I    Nov 2007    Infrastructure ENUM Requirements

RFC5076 PS   Dec 2007    ENUM Validation Information Mapping for the Extensible
                      Provisioning Protocol

RFC5105 PS   Dec 2007    ENUM Validation Token Format Definition