Subject: [Enum] I-D ACTION:draft-rutkowski-enum-network-element-access-00.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:30:17 -0400

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

	Title		: FACILITATING PRIVATE COMPETITIVE PROVISIONING OF ENUM 
                          AS A PREFERRED TECHNICAL, OPERATIONAL,AND REGULATORY 
                          CHOICE
	Author(s)	: A. Rutkowski
	Filename	: draft-rutkowski-enum-network-element-access-00.txt
	Pages		: 
	Date		: 10-Apr-02
	
ENUM is an Internet information service for the benefit
of private users of the Internet.  It makes use of
authoritative E.164 telephone number data maintained
among public telecommunication service providers to
enable some useful value added messaging services on
the Internet.  Anyone can (and several companies do)
provide these ENUM services competitively today without
government involvement or regulation.  Other providers
can enter the marketplace.
Although one ENUM provisioning option is to denominate
a particular Internet offering worldwide as 'public'
and 'authoritative,' there are significant technical,
operational, and regulatory burdens and costs created
that make the prospect rather daunting at best.  It is
also unnecessary.  A more effective alternative is to
facilitate ENUM service providers' access to authoritative 
E.164 number and customer information through fair and 
non-discriminatory contractual arrangements with public 
telecommunication service providers, and leave the rest 
to a competitive ENUM provider marketplace and the 
commercial relationships between Internet Service 
Providers and public telecommunication carriers.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rutkowski-enum-network-element-access-00.txt

To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to 
ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message.

Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username
"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
type "cd internet-drafts" and then
	"get draft-rutkowski-enum-network-element-access-00.txt".

A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in
http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html 
or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt

Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail.

Send a message to:
	[email-masked].
In the body type:
	"FILE /internet-drafts/draft-rutkowski-enum-network-element-access-00.txt".
	
NOTE:	The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in
	MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility.  To use this
	feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE"
	command.  To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or
	a MIME-compliant mail reader.  Different MIME-compliant mail readers
	exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with
	"multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split
	up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on
	how to manipulate these messages.

Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
Internet-Draft.