[80457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Sun May 1 19:49:19 2005
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 01:46:50 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) [Mon 02 May 2005, 01:45 CEST]:
>Why do you think the ISP knows anything more precise that the
>information they already give in the IN-ADDR.ARPA name? Let's encode
>the ZIP Code in the router DNS name ... (well, someone had to suggest
>using DNS as the universal database solution eventually).
Well that's fun... whenever you see a phone number you can get its
physical location. Doesn't sound like such a good idea to me,
privacy-wise.
-- Niels.
--
The idle mind is the devil's playground
