Recently we (#pbxinaflash) have been playing around with ENUM at e164.org, some with greater success than others.  We have all experienced intermittent authentication failures and “missed calls” – overall not really impressed with the whole service.  It seems their services have been dwindling quality wise for some time now.

We have begun coding a new project for e164 with security, quality of service and ease of use in mind.  We plan to have immediate call out for registration authentication assuring proof of number and SIP URI.  The project has only been in the works for two days but we have been moving very quickly.

If you are a Bind expert (or just want to help) please join us on freenode at #pbxinaflash and submit your two cents.  Our temporary project page can be found at http://sip.geekhut.org – we would love some feedback.

Thus far we have a solid registration system implemented that does everything but write the DNS records (useless at this point) – that’s why we need you to help with Bind configuration.  This is a Debian (Stable) host running a minimal LAMP stack and chrooted Bin9.

We chose to call it “ENUM Enhanced” as we plan to pass additional contact information (avatar, email, address, trade, alternate contact etc) complete with a screen pop App that will display user specified information upon incoming call.

Once completed we plan to release the source GPL and freely available to everyone – each implementation will phone home and share its public records with our global database (opt-in of course) which should encourage use and expand the userbase exponentially.

We look forward to hearing from you and should have a public SVN up within the week.