VoIP operators given 120-day deadline to implement E911 services
Yep: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050519/ap_on_hi_te/911_internet_phones - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: | | Yep: | | http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050519/ap_on_hi_te/911_internet_phones | That last part ought to be interesting to try and implement in 120 days: "...must provide the emergency operator with the customer's callback number and location, regardless of whether the call is being made from the customer's home or elsewhere." So what's the local 911 center I should be routed to when I'm at the Cebu Phillipines airport and making a VoIP call? - -- ========= bep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCjNmpE1XcgMgrtyYRAmGxAJ9mSpa/nlzPFIWUlcb+bir4X/Vi2QCdGBU/ BqqsjKTF1Z6spxpWaON4Qqs= =6c+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 5/19/05, Bruce Pinsky <bep@whack.org> wrote:
That last part ought to be interesting to try and implement in 120 days:
"...must provide the emergency operator with the customer's callback number and location, regardless of whether the call is being made from the customer's home or elsewhere."
I'm not sure how VoIP operators are going to accomplish this.. The ugly method would be requiring the user to put in their location information when the VoIP device first goes online, but I'm not sure that's even remotely practical... I know you can sometimes get generalized location information from an IP, but nowhere near what's needed for 911 operations.. Any insight on how this is going to be handled?
So what's the local 911 center I should be routed to when I'm at the Cebu Phillipines airport and making a VoIP call?
Where should I be routed when I'm making a VoIP call while wardriving?
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-- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold XenoPhage0@gmail.com
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jason Frisvold wrote:
On 5/19/05, Bruce Pinsky <bep@whack.org> wrote:
That last part ought to be interesting to try and implement in 120 days:
"...must provide the emergency operator with the customer's callback number and location, regardless of whether the call is being made from the customer's home or elsewhere."
I'm not sure how VoIP operators are going to accomplish this.. The ugly method would be requiring the user to put in their location information when the VoIP device first goes online, but I'm not sure that's even remotely practical...
Well there are ways to get close, one can have systems that let users register locations and then back end systems that notice when the user changes location. It can get complex, but frankly any good VoIP provider needs to do some of this anyway to make sure users get routed to the best outbound proxy.
I know you can sometimes get generalized location information from an IP, but nowhere near what's needed for 911 operations..
True, user still needs to enter some information that needs to be correlated against MSAG. That part often is harder then the rest because MSAG is different county to county.
Any insight on how this is going to be handled?
So what's the local 911 center I should be routed to when I'm at the Cebu Phillipines airport and making a VoIP call?
Where should I be routed when I'm making a VoIP call while wardriving?
Well for voice quality you will be routed to the best outbound proxy for your current location and that recalculates that all the time. One way we do this at least is with: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mmusic-media-loopback-00.txt However, 911 for you and for people with WiSIP devices still is a big problem.
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