[68319] in North American Network Operators' Group
FCC Internet Policy WG to hold VoIP 911/E911 summit on March
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Mar 8 16:24:18 2004
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:23:42 -0500
From: John Curran <jcurran@xo.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-243851A1.pdf>
"On Thursday, March 18, 2004, the FCC=B9s Internet Policy Working Group (IPWG=
)
will hold the first in a series of a =B3Solutions Summits=B2 at which leaders i=
n
government and industry can discuss creative ways to address policy issues
that arise as communications services move to Internet-based platforms. Th=
e
initial meeting will focus on 911/E911 issues, and on the particular
challenges and opportunities created for emergency services in expanding
911/E911 access to VoIP users and increasing the use of IP technologies in
emergency services networks"
This will be one of the first public discussions of 911/E911 issues for VoI=
P
which includes both public safety and US telecomm regulatory officials.
/John
PS. My apologizes to those folks whose SMS or RJE gateways were hung up
by my earlier mime-formatted version of this email... Nationalistic,
7-bit, discard-the-encoding-and-be-PINE-friendly used above instead.
