[80451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun May 1 18:09:54 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Peter & Karin Dambier" <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 00:09:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: <11199.1114768815@www2.gmx.net> (Peter & Karin Dambier's message
of "Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:00:15 +0200 (MEST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Peter & Karin Dambier:
> Skype and public domain telefones dont know about location,
> nor will they ever learn.
>
> The only place where somebody could catch a 911 call is at
> a sip server.
Come on, let's be a bit more creative. Location signalling over IP
would be technically feasible. Your ISP does in fact know where your
connection ends. Even it's just a tunnel, we eventually get down to
layer 1 and bingo, the information is there.
Of course, you don't get the necessary infrastructure for free, but
you could use it for other services, too (like making identity theft a
bit harder). There are privacy implications as well. But I'm not
sure if an enticement to develop technical solutions is necessarily a
bad thing.
