This document discusses IMS ENUM and DNS mechanisms for mapping telephone numbers and SIP URLs. It contains the following information: 1. ENUM is defined as the E.164 Number Mapping that provides a system to unify telephone numbers with Internet addressing by mapping E.164 numbers to URIs like SIP. 2. When a UE invites another party using a SIP URL, DNS is used to resolve the URL to an IP address. But for TEL URLs, DNS cannot resolve it so ENUM is used to map the TEL URL to a SIP URL which can then be resolved. 3. If ENUM query for a TEL URL succeeds, the TEL URL is mapped to a SIP URL which