ENUM: An overview of developments in naming, numbering and addressing for NGNs

This paper provides an overview of developments in numbering, naming and addressing in the context of Next Generation Networks (NGN) with a focus on ENUM (tElephone NUmber Mapping). ENUM comprises a diverse set of standards and non-standardised mechanisms for transforming public telephone numbers into unique domain names.

ENUM: Converging telephone numbers and addresses in next generation networks