On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
Someone else pointed out that if the system in question has been botted/owned/pwn3d/whatever you want to call it, then, you can't guarantee it would make the 911 call correctly anyway.
I realize that many NANOG'ers don't actually use the technologies that we talk about, so I'm just going to correct this:
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that most people using VoIP do so using their computer. While it kind of started out that way years ago, it simply isn't so anymore. Most VoIP services can be configured to work with an analog telephony adapter, providing a POTS jack. Most VoIP services even provide one as part of the subscription, sometimes for a fee.
I do use VOIP, bot computer and non-computer based. None the less, the fact remains that should any of my systems become compromised, my ability to make a VOIP phone call is in doubt regardless of what the provider does. Additionally the problems of DDOS sourced from a collection of compromised hosts could be interfering with someone else's ability to make a successful VOIP call. Abuse sources should be blocked from impacting the rest of the network. This blocking should be as narrow as possible. Owen