NANC Future of Numbering (FoN) Working Group

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NANCFuture of Numbering(FoN)Working Group

• July 18, 2006
• Co-Chairs
• James Castagna, Verizon
• John Cummings, Vonage
• Don Gray, Nebraska PSC

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Report Summary

• Project Tracking Matrix
• Revised Mission and Scope Proposal
• Meeting Progress/Activities
• Meeting Schedule

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Project Tracking Matrix
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Mission and Scope Proposed Changes

• Mission
• To explore changes to the environment, including
  new and future technologies, the impact of market
  place and/or regulatory changes and innovations
  on telephone numbering.
• Scope
• The Working Group will investigate new telephone
  numbering assignment approaches and future
  telephone number assignment requirements in
  cooperation with other industry forums/committees
  as appropriate. The Working Group will identify
  trends and assess their impact upon numbering
  resources. The Working Group, if necessary, will
  analyze potential changes to numbering
  administration and use common criteria to
  determine the feasibility and benefit of each and
  report its findings to the NANC. The Working
  Group will also analyze various topics that may
  be given to it from time to time by the NANC
  and/or FCC.

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• External Reports Under Review
• The Future Of Numbering - May 2006 Draft Report
  - Electronic Communications Committee (ECC)
  within the European Conference of Postal and
  Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT).
• Telephone Numbering Safeguarding the Future of
  Numbers - Feb 2006 - Office Of
  Telecommunications (UK)
• What Do Consumers Think About Telephone Numbers
  Summary Research Conducted for OfTel by
  FutureSight

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• FoN is moving From Technology to Services
  Perspective
• Technology ? Capability
• Mobility ? Feature
• SIP ? Intelligence
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• New Services
• Recognizing new and existing Services which use
  TNs will likely most significantly impact the
  NANP.

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• Technology Enablers/Influences
• Choice of TNs from any area code
• Use of device address book instead of TN
• Telephony devices support dialing numerous
  types of addresses beyond TNs, e.g., SIP URIs
• A new Mobility - Movement among several
  Fixed/Mobile IP Devices (contact addresses) or
  networks.
• Use of a single address, e.g., SIP URI, can be
  used to reach individual at any/all of their
  contact addresses.

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• End User Habits/Influences
• Numbers are stored and accessed.
• Mobile numbers are stored more often
• Fixed numbers are remembered
• What a TN tell us about the destination.
• Locality Potential Supplier/Time of Day
• Cost Relativity
• Business Dispatch/Marketing
• Fixed Device becomes a Communal Phone
• Mobile / Nomadic Device becomes a Personal Phone

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• New Addressing Scheme Options/Influences
• Impact of competing electronic addressing schemes
  
• Telephone Numbers represented by phrases
• IP addresses represented by numbers
• Domain Names or phrases mapped to IP addresses
• ENUM bridging the PSTN with the IP network via
  telephone numbers
• ENUM as a book of addresses identifying a
  multitude of services represented by URIs
• Private naming addresses within social networking
  services, e.g., Skype, MySpace names

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• Five (Tentative) Areas of Analysis
• Services/Devices
• Regulation
• Allocation
• Mobility
• Database
• New Agenda Format allows for addressing two Areas
  of Analysis per scheduled meeting.

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Meeting Progress/Activities

• New Agenda Format/Template
• General Session
• 1. 0000 0005 General Discussion of Numbering
  Issues
• 2. 0005 0010 Introductions Attendance
• 3. 0010 0015 Prior Meeting Notes Review
• 4. 0015 0020 Identification and Disposition
  of
• Open Prior Action Items
• New Contributions
• Study Area Session
• 6. 0020 0105 Study Area X
• 7. 0105 0110 Health Break
• 8. 0110 0155 Study Area Y
• Closing Session
• 9. 0155 0200 New Business and Future Meeting
  Schedule
• Agenda End

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Meeting Schedule
DATE BRIDGE DETAILS
July 17, 2006 2 PM ET 1-888-699-0348 or 732-336-6000 pin 4962 (Telcordia)
July 27, 2008 12 PM ET 866-860-0517 or 816-650-7819, pin 5593152 (Sprint/Nextel)
August 10, 2006 130 PM ET 866-860-0517 or 816-650-7819, pin 5593152 (Sprint/Nextel)
August 30, 2006 2 PM ET TBD