ATIS' Industry Numbering Committee (INC) "VoIP Workshop" Conducts Inaugural Meeting, Announces Technical Priorities January 15, 2003, Washington, D.C. - ATIS' Industry Numbering Committee (INC) "Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Workshop" convened its inaugural meeting on January 9, established its mission and scope, and identified the technical priorities it will investigate to determine the possible impact of VoIP on numbering resources within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). ATIS' VoIP Workshop will address the potential numbering issues arising from the integration of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Internet Protocol (IP) networks with respect to VoIP telephone calls; the impacts these different architectural combinations may have on the use, allocation, and assignment of NANP numbers; and the impact of applicable regulatory directives. The technical priorities the VoIP Workshop will address include various telephone dialing scenarios (i.e., VoIP calls from PSTN to IP networks, VoIP calls from IP networks to PSTN, and VoIP calls from IP to IP networks); and VoIP issues associated with: INC Numbering Assignment Guidelines, Quantity and Distribution of Numbers, Number Portability and Number Pooling, Geographic and Non-geographic Numbering Plan Area (NPA), and E911 Service. ATIS' INC addresses and resolves industry-wide issues associated with the planning, administration, allocation, assignment and use of resources and related dialing considerations for public telecommunications within the North American Number Plan (NANP) area. For more information on the VoIP Workshop, contact ATIS Industry Forum Director, Jean-Paul Emard at jpemard@atis.org, or visit www.atis.org/atis/clc/inc/inchom.htm. About ATIS -30-
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