[Ecommerce] New spam opportunity? NTIA Letter on ENUM

[James Love]

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Subject: Re: [CYBERTEL] NTIA Letter on ENUM
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:21:24 -0700
From: Marianne Granoff <granoff@ZIANET.COM>
Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet 
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To: CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

 From another list:

>The spammers will _love_ this. Now all they have to do is send emails
>sequentially to all 9,999,999,999 phone numbers and they will have
>everyone's email address covered.

Interesting thought. . .  Has NTIA considered the implications???

Marianne

At 12:51 PM 2/13/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>For Immediate Release
>February 12, 2003
>Contact: Clyde Ensslin or
>Ranjit de Silva, 202-482-7002
>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2003/enumpr_02122003.htm
>
>Letter
>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/ntiageneral/enum/enum_02122003.htm
>
>NTIA Backs New Linkage of Internet Addresses with
>Telephone Numbers
>
>NTIA today pledged active U.S. government
>participation in the global effort, known as "ENUM"
>and now under way, to match phone numbers with
>Internet addresses. ENUM would enable U.S. citizens to
>communicate both voice and text messages through one
>single identifier, either a telephone number or an
>e-mail address.
>
>In a letter from Assistant Secretary of Commerce Nancy
>J. Victory to Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S.
>Coordinator for International Communications and
>Information Policy, NTIA recommends that the U.S. take
>initial steps toward "opting in" to e164.arpa, the new
>global Internet domain set aside for the matching of
>Internet addresses and telephone numbers.
>
>The letter sets forth principles of security,
>competition, and individual privacy standards to guide
>domestic implementation of ENUM that will maximize
>competitive opportunities for industry while
>protecting the privacy and security of consumers in
>the United States. The text of the letter is available
>on the NTIA Web site at www.ntia.doc.gov.
>
>NTIA will work with the U.S. State Department and the
>Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to resolve
>domestic and international implementation issues, the
>letter said. If the U.S. opts in to ENUM through
>International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
>procedures, U.S. companies may then establish trials
>and begin to provide ENUM services to U.S. businesses
>and consumers.
>
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