FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

Chris Boyd cboyd at gizmopartners.com
Sun May 1 22:36:00 UTC 2005



On May 1, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:37:40PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 May 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>> How about an anycast address implement(ed|able) by every network
>>> provider that would return a zipcode?
>>>
>>> $ telnet 10.255.255.254
>>> Connected
>>> 33709
>>> Disconnected.
>>
>> is there a unique zipcode in shanghai?
>
> s/zipcode/unique geographic identifier on the rough order of a square 
> mile/
>

Or have the server return the SNMP location information.  The network 
operator would then be able to configure locally meaningful 
information.

--Chris




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