[80435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:50:20 2005
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:47:48 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050501163810.GD3831@vacation.karoshi.com.>; from bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com on Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:38:10PM +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:38:10PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > How about an anycast address implement(ed|able) by every network
> > provider that would return a zipcode?
> >
> > $ telnet 10.255.255.254
> > Connected
> > 33709
> > Disconnected.
> > $
> are you -REALLY- arguing for the return of "finger" ??
I thought it was clear that I was not.
To expand: the problem is the VoIP client being able to *furnish* an
approximation of where it is, to permit the selection of the proper
Public Safety Access Point (or equivalent).
If each end-router supplied that data, through *some* easily queriable
protocol, such clients could retrieve it, and then decide (in some
fashion) where to send Emergency Services Request calls (or furnish it
to their carrier, if they have one, for similar purposes).
I Am Not An ISP, Either, but this problem doesn't seem *all* that hard
to solve to me...
Cheers,
-- jra
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