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ENUM is alive and well, and used in telecom, it's just not public for most numbering plans. If you need to know the carrier of a number for call routing, there'
by toast0 2y ago
ENUM is alive and well, and used in telecom, it's just not public for most numbering plans. If you need to know the carrier of a number for call routing, there's a chance you'll use ENUM under the hood.
To the OP. Phone number portability was a plausible demand, because a) it already existed in some form for toll free numbers and other specialty numbers, and b) the number of telephone carriers subject to portability is generally quite small, so there's not a lot of regulatory reach required. OTOH, there are thousands of email providers, and forcing them all to provide forwarding of some sort would be a massive undertaking.
It might not be pleasant to change your email address... on the other hand, email is probably slowly dying, so it might not be a big deal in another 20 years. :P
- pllbnk 2y agoInteresting. What do you think will replace email in 20 years as a means of identification? I could imagine forced log ins via corporate authorization servers but that would defeat the purpose of having custom domain and email.
- toast0 2y agoPhone numbers/sim IDs maybe. Not cause people use them for phone calls, but because more people have an active phone line (or data line which gets a phone number anyway), than email, especially in countries where computers never made it to everyone's homes before smartphones took over.