Richard Stastny points to new versions of ETSI TISPAN WG4 documents on ENUM. He says:

• "ETSI TS 102 172 V2 "Minimum Requirements for Interoperability of ENUM Implementations" may now be considered stable. It is planned to approve the document at ETSI TISPAN#5 in January 2005. It may serve in conjunction with the relevant (and referenced) IETF RFCs (and drafts) as basis for ENUM implementations in e164.arpa worldwide. The document may be updated in one year or so depending on experiences and feedback from first implementations and also if IETF finally catches up with the RFCs for IANA registered "enumservices"."
  • ETSI TS 102 172 markup (doc)
  • ETSI TS 102 172 clean (pdf)
    
• "ETSI TR 102 055 "Infrastructure ENUM" now also reaches stability, after some parts have been moved to be covered in a subsequent document. So it may be considered as a framework document covering potential Infrastructure ENUM scenarios. The subsequent document will cover some specific scenarios, e.g. for TISPAN IMS NGN. It is also planned to have this document at least ready for WG approval at ETSI TISPAN#5 in January."
  • ETSI TR 102 055 markup (doc)
  • ETSI TR 102 055 clean (pdf)

[via VoIP and ENUM]

9:33:20 PM    

Mobility Unplugged: Technologies, Policy Challenges and Market Opportunities (PDF) was presented by Lara Srivastava , ITU Strategy and Policy Unit, at the Annual Telecom Symposium 2004 in New Delhi, India. The agenda of the presentation includes:

• No wires: what’s all the fuss?
• Technology focus
• The mobile phone as the device of choice
• Key policy challenges
• Advantage Asia
• The world’s biggest mobile growth market
• A peek into the future?

9:32:31 PM    

The New Yorker, which is apparently a magazine and not a sandwich, has an article on the history of cell phone ringtones, the little bits of MIDI and MP3 that accounted for four billion dollars in revenue last year. While the history may not be enlightening—they started crappy, then got better—it serves as a decent round-up of the state-of-the-art in coworker frustration, as well. They neglect to mention the nascent trend among the cutting edge, where discordant sine waves are loaded onto different phones, forcing the evacuation of cerebrospinal fluid through the ears of every other person in your sales meeting.

Yes, this was the worst clip art I could find.

RING MY BELL [NewYorker via Slashdot]

5:28:51 PM