ENUM
January 15th, 2010 by ComputerBob
I currently have 2 telephone numbers and several different email addresses.
My email client is configured to automatically check for new messages every five minutes.
And I’m willing to answer the phone at all hours — in fact, some of the most important calls I’ve ever received have come in the middle of the night.
All of those options make it pretty easy to reach me — except when I don’t want to be reached.
But there’s an idea that would make it even easier to reach me — even when I don’t want to be reached: “E-mail, IM, Facebook, phones — what if all of these ways to reach you over a network could be condensed into a single, unique number? The ENUM proposal aims to do just that, by giving everyone a single phone number that maps to all of their identifiers.”
It doesn’t surprise me at all that Slashdot’s readers have some of the same concerns about ENUM that I do.
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