Listing again; The Internet.(A controversial Internet directory)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, April, 2002
A way to turn telephone numbers into web addresses is proving controversial
FEW things cause more trouble in the online world than lists. The body overseeing the Internet's domain-name system, ICANN, keeps making unfortunate headlines; recently, one of the group's own board members sued it to open its books. Now another electronic directory has become a bone of contention: ENUM, a way of turning telephone numbers into Internet addresses by converting the numbers into domain names ending in .arpa.
This convergence, everybody agrees, is a good idea. It would give a boost to Internet telephony and foster interesting new services. Instead of listing everything from mobile-phone numbers to instant-messaging addresses on business cards, people could hand...
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