[122908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Tue Feb 23 06:22:53 2010
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:22:12 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <DD76F836-61A0-479C-8A37-24B1FDA12486@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/23/10 1:25 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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> And who runs this database?
>
> Local number portability requires a new database, one that didn't exist before, It's run by a neutral party and maps any phone number to a carrier and endpoint identifier. (In the US, that database is currently run by Neustar -- see http://www.neustar.biz/solutions/solutions-for/number-administration)
A circa 1998 leveraged buy out of the Communications Industry Services
unit of Lockheed Martin (Warburg Pinkus et al, 71%, MidOcean Capital
14%, ABS Capital 6%, and CEO Jeff Ganek < 3%, as of 2005).
There are some NANOG employer entities similarly structured, but not
many, so the oddity is worth mention.
Eric
