ugh, i’ve been scratching my head about them in a few blog entries:

http://chrisholland.blogspot.com/2004/10/voip-dundi-peerio_20.html

http://chrisholland.blogspot.com/2004/10/voip-numbering.html

This all seems somewhat silly to me. I know we’re all trying real hard to live our lives around numbers just so we can accommodate 100-year old user interfaces, but i’m just hoping we’ll evolve to the next century … here’s a related rant:

http://chrisholland.blogspot.com/2004/10/voip-numbers-are-so-1849.html

… with more discussing going on here:

http://voipandenum.blogspot.com/2004/10/enum-numbers-and-uris-voip-and-pstn-or.html

Amen!

I don’t if you’ve already seen this, but just in case, this *might* shed *some* light:

http://www.gnup.org/applications.html

What I’m taking from these diagrams is that they’re looking at every communication protocol out there and attempting to graft GNUP on-top of it, with GNUP gateways all over the place.

blech … ?

That ‘applications’ page is exactly the kind of non-information information I’m talking about. It leaves one asking more questions.

I have a SIP phone. What can I do with my GNUP number?

Is there a DNS root I can query for NAPTR records?

Etc.

yep, i have no idea what GNUP is either. and since it is not able to make it clear to me on the front page, i dont think it is worthwhile to figure it out anyway.