ENUM Day 2 marked by practical experiences and international cooperation

The second annual one-day conference attended over 100 ICT professionals and enthusiasts.

PRAGUE, September 18, The second annual one-day conference devoted to ENUM technology concluded as a greater success than its predecessor. The meeting, which was organized and hosted by the CZ.NIC association, was attended by over 100 ICT professionals and enthusiasts, attracted mostly by the opportunity to get to know ENUM from a practical perspective. The day prior to the conference, CZ.NIC representatives together with the representatives of national domain registries of the Netherlands, Germany and Austria signed the deed founding the ENUM Federation whose main goal are joint actions aimed at increasing awareness about ENUM.

ENUM has been present in the Czech Republic since January of last year and since then it has made significant progress. Through this year’s session annual ENUM Day we wanted to present primarily the fact that ENUM is already past the phase of a technological experiment. That was achieved thanks to the representatives of the participating companies, which have already been using ENUM and have decided to share their experiences with its implementation and operation,“ stated Ondřej Filip, executive director of CZ.NIC association.

Presentations by individual attendees and audio-visual records from the conference will be freely available within 14 days on the web at http://enum.nic.cz/enumday2/. Those interested can already find participants’ presentations of ENUM Day there as well.

While ENUM is slowly gaining recognition among companies, public awareness of ENUM still remains low. This should be improved, among others, by the foundation of the ENUM Federation, which was initiated by CZ.NIC. The members of the Federation are representatives of registries of national domains of the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, thus countries, which have made the biggest progress in ENUM utilization.

• "The first goal of ENUM Federation is to create a brand, which could be used for all products and services supporting ENUM. The purpose of this brand is to introduce customers to such products, which enables customers to call via ENUM, much like Bluetooth or wi-fi technologies. We expect that a unified advertising campaign will mainly increase interest in ENUM as well as support more public utilization of this technology,“* said Pavel Tůma, project manager of CZ.NIC association.