<div dir="ltr">There was a project, ENUMER, to put DIDs in a blockchain and an ENUM server lookup frontend to it to facilitate peering. I didn't saw many entries in the database back when it launched. I haven't looked in a while and don't remember which blockchain it was on.<div><br></div><div>I believe TNS and Neustar operate a private ENUM peering service. XConnect used to but I didn't see it on their webpage when I looked today.</div><div><br></div><div>I vaguely recall hearing that Mavenir offered a service for cellular providers to exchange HD Voice traffic between each other in the US. Like the Cable Labs ENUM peering service, I think its a private club offering only.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On the Toll Free side, Teliax offers tollfree.exchange which allows RESPORGs to join directly, hand off calls between each other, and set rates.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 8:12 AM Ed Guy via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4734731503395394400">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">We then spun part of the free world dialup into iPeerX around 2005; sold it to Eli Katz a few years later.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The key problems at the time were:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="m_-4734731503395394400MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">there were too few ITSP numbers to make the effort worthwhile; The exception was the cable companies which I believe had their own peering through cable
labs. <u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="m_-4734731503395394400MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">There was fear that publishing voip addresses would lead to hacking and spam calls.
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>chris <<a href="mailto:tknchris@gmail.com" target="_blank">tknchris@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Maybe the signup fee, and lookup time is what killed the idea?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If that's the case, we could solve it by downloading the list preemptively, for the signup we could use some cheap hosting, and instead verifying it with crypto.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">We could possibly cryptographically verify it by showing a STIR/SHAKEN passport that was signed by one of the major brands.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:29 AM<br>
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<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:05:26 AM<br>
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> On 24 Oct 2023, at 08:49, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The service would just look like a carrier, except it would know how to reach all other participants directly with SIP, bypassing TDM land, and enabling rich media as a fringe benefit, as media would be direct between endpoints.<br>
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> I have a proof of concept and am wondering who out there might be willing to do some testing.<br>
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