[80446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Sun May 1 15:57:41 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050501123416.R21726@cgi.jachomes.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 05:57:07 +1000
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On May 2, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> How about an anycast address implement(ed|able) by every network
> provider that would return a zipcode?
That would be fine in the US, and with some extension in Canada and a
few other countries.
No, I think the service would have to be built using some real
definition of location (such as GPS) which is offered by the phone to
the called party on user command, and the called party then refers that
to some clearinghouse that gets it to the right emergency service
office.
