About us
The goal of
the Country Code 1 ENUM Limited Liability Company is to build the
public infrastructure that will promote the development of ENUM
technology in a single, carrier-class manner within the countries of
the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The countries of the NANP
include the United States, Canada and some Caribbean nations.
ENUM is a
technology that allows users to combine the resources of the Internet
with traditional telephony, uniting these two diverse worlds of
communications and enabling a whole new range of communication
applications. The ENUM system effectively enables individuals,
businesses and other organizations to maximize the use of both the
public Internet and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) by
associating telephone numbers with Internet domain names.
As a result, phone numbers can be used to send traditional telephony
services like voice calls or faxes which can be converted to digital
packets for delivery to a variety of devices.
A common
ENUM system becomes increasingly essential as applications like voice
over IP (VoIP) become more widely adopted. The ENUM system
bridges the technology gap between the public Internet and the Public
Switched Telephone Network so that VoIP users of different service
providers can communicate more simply with each other.
We are
seeking to build a commercial implementation consistent with the
relevant open standards of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) upon which ENUM is
based. The ENUM LLC will help to implement a single, public
ENUM system for those nations within the NANP that choose to
participate. It is intended that the North American
implementation of ENUM will adhere to national and industry privacy
requirements. The ENUM LLC's first task will involve selection of a
vendor to take the initial steps towards creation of an infrastructure
that would enable the countries within the NANP to establish their own
national ENUM implementations. The company will also be responsible for
selecting a vendor to develop the national infrastructure for the
United States.
Country Code 1 ENUM LLC members include AT&T, Sprint-Nextel, and Verizon.
CC1 ENUM LLC Operating Agreement
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