Re: [enum-wg] "production status"?

[Alexander Mayrhofer <]

HiroHOTTA wrote:
>  What is the definition of "production status"
> in your case? In other words, what aspects of your ENUM services 
> are in production status in your case? - it brings money? 
> anybody in the public can use? production-quality system? .....?
All,

here in Austria, "production status" means to us that:

- we have a contract with the regulator where operations of the ENUM
  zone is assigned to us - a company dedicated to provide ENUM
  registry services.
- ENUM delegations show up in 3.4.e164.arpa.
- we have production quality registry and DNS systems at the same
  availability and performance levels as the local ccTLD system
  in place (actually, it's even more advanced than the ccTLD system)
- we have registrars offering commercially available ENUM based
  products on the market
- we have a "watertight" legal framework about registration, validation
  and registrar relationship
- we have a number range created by the regulator where ENUM entries
  are obligatory (+43 780) - and are authoritative for routing the calls
  even in the PSTN.
- we are charging delegation fees

So that means:

- Anybody owning a phone number in Austria can approach one of our
  registrars, and register the ENUM domain corresponding to his
  numbers.
- Anybody can approach one of our registrars, and register a "+43 780"
  number - as long as the ENUM domain is available, the number is
  available as well (like a xTLD [no, i don't neccessarily mean .xxx ;)]
- Any company which wants to provide ENUM based services to it's
  customers can sign up as a registrar with enum.at

If anything is still unclear, don't hesitate to contact me.

cheers

Alex Mayrhofer
enum.at