[67956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Feb 26 11:36:19 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:35:19 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <0wgKU5A3ehPAFwWV@uklaptop.internetpolicyagency.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Roland Perry wrote:
> In article
> <578F3C8F6DD3D411850600508BF320CA03A60E64@aries-exch1.uk.eu.corp.vizzavi.
> net>, "Pendergrass, Greg" <Greg.Pendergrass@vodafone.com> writes
>
>> if you want to call an ambulance you DON'T use the internet
>
> And you also need a way to persuade the Ambulance Service not to
> terminate their calls via VoIP, or send dispatch instructions via
> public-IP over GSM (or whatever) to their vehicles.
I think we will need also to make it illegal (to control the liability
issues) to need emergency assistance in a place whose only link
is via "public-IP". (I hear that there are places in Papua New Guinea
that are being brought "on-line" where everything (EVERYthing) else is
stone-age-standard.)
> Or the IP bits need to be assured as "good enough" that it doesn't matter.
>
> It's perhaps three years since I heard that there was real possibility
> of some of the above. That stable door may be more open than you think.
