FW: [enum-wg] ITU: debate over User-ENUM administration

Christian writes:
> If he is referring to e164.arpa then that is one thing if he is
referring
> to .arpa itself then that is quite another (I think!)

Not really.

The legal mess in the root and .arpa is (was) not of ITU-T's concern,
although they want to get in helpful to solve the problem ;-)

Now with ENUM suddenly e164.arpa IS of ITU-T's concern, and it is
only logical that they want to have a sound legal basis here.

But since the question of the legal basis of e164.arpa leads 
to the question of the legal basis of .arpa and this leads 
finally to the question of the legal basic of the root itself.

Nabil's chain of thought is only logical.

Regards

Richard
PS: regarding your other statement:
>I hope my explanation elsewhere clarifies what I mean.
...
>I am simply saying that from the top down ENUM 
>delegation does not confer 
>with it authority to create and manage E.164 
>number plans. 
>That still remains with the existing E.164 delegations e.g., 
>in UK Ofcom.  ie., ENUM is not competing with the existing ITU E.164
number >process.

Agreed