This is a resource page for the development of policy and the deployment of ENUM in Canada.

CISC ENUM WG call-in number has changed to : 613-787-5143 x 7489061#

The CISC ENUM Working Group is inactive

We are awaiting the consideration by the CRTC of the trial frameworks and the proposed structure to hold the Canadian ENUM trial.

Events in 2006

Report by the chairman of the Canadian Steering Committee on Numbering (CSCN) to the CRTC outlining the various reports to the CRTC on ENUM, of 25 November 2006.

Bernard Turcotte, President of CIRA, announces CIRA's intention to offer infrastructure ENUM to Canadian carriers (August 29, 2006).

Notes to the Department of Industry on the Tier 1A document (July 2006)

TIF69 on the creation of a legal framework for a trial

We have succeeded in devising a Canadian trial framework. On May 16th, 2006, the trial framework document was sent to the CRTC for approval. And as of December 1, we are still waiting for something to happen.

Covering note from Doug Birdwise to Claude Brault of the CRTC

The trial framework document (TIF Report 58)

ENUM Forum Tier 1A Requirements Document

Minutes of the latest CSCN ENUM meetings and teleconferences

Events in 2005

Contribution of Union des Consommateurs du Québec on the ENUM governance structure

Proposal to recharter the IETF Working Group on ENUM (October 21, 2005)

Presentation of Doug Birdwise, Chairman, CSCN, on the state of ENUM to the Technology Advisory Standards Council of Canada, October 2005

The state of CISC discussion on ENUM  is represented in the "Basic Questions for the

Creation of an ENUM Registry in Canada" document of June 9, 2005.

CIRA contribution on the Structure of Canadian ENUM Industry Governance (April 22, 2005)

CIRA-ENUM Memorandum of Understanding completed

On February 9, 2005, in Washington DC, CIRA and the US ENUM LLC signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding the terms under which CIRA would act, during the trial period, as the Tier 1A registry for ENUM for participating countries in Country Code 1.

Bell contribution of 3 February 2005 on the creation of an ENUM registry in Canada

The CISC ENUM working group

In Canada, work has proceeded in an industry forum working under the aegis of the CRTC, the federal telecommunications regulator.

CSCN TIF53 A report from the CISC ENUM working group upwards to the CRTC and elsewhere setting forth the working group's agreement to various important questions, including delegation (18 May, 2004). This report was accepted by the full CISC on June 4, 2004, and passed on to the CRTC for action.

The CISC ENUM Working Group

Its origins and rules are described on this page

TIF (Task Identification Form) Reports of the ENUM working Group

These are the reports we have filed with the CRTC seeking direction or stating that consensus has been achieved.

1. TIF report 45A of September 16, 2004

2. TIF report 40A of 10 May 2004

3. TIF report 54A of 21 October 2005

Minutes

of the CISC ENUM Committee meetings, and any other relevant Canadian meetings, are found here

Activities

Bell Contribution on a Canadian ENUM Trial Framework 18 November 2004

Basic questions for the creation of an ENUM registry in Canada (October 1, 2004) a contribution of CIRA.

report of the CISC ENUM August 18, 2004

The draft report was approved at the meeting of September 16, 2004 and sent to the full CISC for its approval at a meeting to be held on October 15, 2004

Events in 2004

Contribution for September 16 meeting

Contributions for May 27 meeting

CIRA contribution on ENUM Industry Structure (May 2004)

Contributions to the April 7 meeting regarding the Issues and Questions document

Agenda of the CSCN ENUM committee meeting, Ottawa, Thursday March 11, and the expected participants are listed here.

Presentations from Karen Mulberry, Richard Shockey, Bernard Turcotte and Gary Richenaker

Contributions for or following the March 11 meeting (in addition to presentations above)

Action document emerging from the March 11 meeting called "CSCN Issues and Questions, 15 March, 2004".

CSCN Issues and Questions, 22 March 2004. The issues and questions were reworked at a telephone meeting and have been sorted into categories. Parties are expected to make contributions on this basis.

Delegation from the ITU

ENUM Administration ad interim - as accepted by Study Group 2, As of May 28, 2004. They have survived the 60-day review period without comment.

Draft letters to RIPE and to the ENUM Forum LLC group from the Canadian ENUM working group, asking about the costs of handling Canadian NPAs.

letter to Karen Mulberry, leader, ENUM Forum LLC group
letter to Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE

Delegation to Country Code 1 (was achieved February 13, 2006)

The CISC ENUM working group has agreed to support the Canadian government's efforts to seek temporary delegation from RIPE-NCC and the ITU-TSB for a CC1 ENUM trial.

Here are the documents relating to the request for delegation from the ITU of authority to conduct an trial of ENUM in CC1 (October 5, 2005).