Enum, or Telephone Number Mapping, aims to do for phone numbers of any kind what the Domain Name System did for the World Wide Web. BBC is reporting that UK’s Enum directory has begun and it will be run by Nominet — the administrator of the .uk top-level domain. More…

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I loved John Todd’s ETel presentation (podcast) on FreeNum, a scheme for bringing phone numbers to the Internet. Of course, I love identifiers and addresses and all that they enable, so it was a natural. Suppose you were a university campus and when you looked at your phone bill, you noticed that a lot of calls were to other universities. You’ve got a VoIP telephone system; they’ve all got VoIP telephone systems. You might wonder “isn’t there some way to route these calls over the Internet and save some serious money?”
The answer, of course is “yes” but making it usable is a little harder… More…

Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com and software by Elliott Back