NetFlash: To regulate or not to regulate

By Jeff Caruso
NetFlash Newsletter, 07/09/01

The debate over Enum is coming to a head, as some of the largest players in the network industry are asking the federal government to step in and help deploy the technology, based on an IETF protocol. If you're not familiar with Enum, you should be. It would be a new link between the world of telephony and the world of the Internet. It puts phone numbers into a DNS, helping to enable phone calls over the Internet and to allow telephones to access 'Net-based services. The question now is, should the government regulate Enum? Some household names think it should, and they're lobbying the U.S. State Department to make it happen.

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