If a government has not formally announced its desire to participate with ENUM (presumably to the TSB) then any request for delegation is promptly objected to by Richard Hill of the ITU and Counselor of the TSB. Further, if a government has agreed to delegation but the requester is not the entity authorized to do so by the government, then it appears this request will also be objected to by Richard Hill. This example surfaced when TLD Networks of the U.K requested delegation for 4.4.e164.arpa on February 23 and received the following objection February 26:

"The ITU Telecommunications Standardization Bureau (TSB) objects to thisrequest because no approval for delegation of the code 44 has yet been received from the concerned country, the United Kingdom. According to information received by TSB, it does not appear that the requestor is the organization that might in the future receive approval for a delegation by the United Kingdom."

But, on February 28 the U.K. Department of Industry and Trade submitted its request for delegation of 4.4.e164.arpa and on March 17 RIPE passed along the request to the TSB without any objection from Richard Hill. So, one must assume that the United Kingdom approved delegation for ENUM between February 26 and February 28 and that the TSB was already notified that the U.K. Department of Industry and Trade was the authorized entity to make such a request. Thus, no objections.

The Institute of Computer Science for the Greek government requested 0.3.e164.arpa. Richard Hill objected to this on the basis the Greek government had not notified the TSB of its desire for ENUM delegation. The China Internet Network Information Center must have fallen into this same trap as its request for 6.8.e164.arpa was also objected. Each of these entities is a formal agency of their respective governments.

This pretty much explains the process for ENUM delegation, sort of.