Enumservice Registration for 'acct' URI
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Independent Submission                                           L. Goix
Request for Comments: 7566                   Econocom-Osiatis Ingenierie
Category: Experimental                                             K. Li
ISSN: 2070-1721                                               Individual
                                                               June 2015

                Enumservice Registration for 'acct' URI

Abstract

   This document registers an E.164 Number Mapping (ENUM) service for
   'acct' URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers).

Status of This Memo

   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
   published for examination, experimental implementation, and
   evaluation.

   This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
   community.  This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently
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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................2
   2. Terminology .....................................................2
   3. Use Cases .......................................................2
      3.1. Reverse Phone Lookup .......................................2
      3.2. Routing of Mobile Social Communications ....................3
   4. IANA Registration ...............................................4
   5. Examples ........................................................5
   6. DNS Considerations ..............................................5
   7. Security Considerations .........................................6
   8. IANA Considerations .............................................7
   9. References ......................................................7
      9.1. Normative References .......................................7
      9.2. Informative References .....................................8
   Acknowledgements ...................................................8
   Authors' Addresses .................................................8

1.  Introduction

   ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping, [RFC6116]) is a system that uses DNS
   (Domain Name Service, [RFC1034]) to translate telephone numbers, such
   as '+44 1632 960123', into URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers,
   [RFC3986]), such as 'acct:user@example.com'.  ENUM exists primarily
   to facilitate the interconnection of systems that rely on telephone
   numbers with those that use URIs to identify resources.

   [RFC7565] defines the 'acct' URI scheme as a way to identify a user's
   account at a service provider.

   This document registers an Enumservice for advertising 'acct' URI
   information associated with an E.164 number.

2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

3.  Use Cases

3.1.  Reverse Phone Lookup

   In this example, an address book application could issue ENUM queries
   looking for 'acct' URIs corresponding to phone numbers.  This could
   be used to display the account identifier as well as an icon based on
   the host (domain) portion of that URI.

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   Similarly, an endpoint could trigger this resolution process during
   inbound and/or outbound calls to discover an account associated with
   the remote party.

   In general, the provision of an ENUM record to map a phone number
   into an account may be useful for businesses or professional workers
   to identify themselves publicly (in a way similar to vCard ENUM
   records).

3.2.  Routing of Mobile Social Communications

   The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) develops mobile service enabler
   specifications, which support the creation of interoperable
   end-to-end mobile services independent of the underlying wireless