How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)
Paul Jakma
paul at clubi.ie
Fri Feb 27 13:39:36 UTC 2004
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> In Canada and the USA they would dial 911
> In the UK they would dial 999
> In Europe they would dial 112 or possibly one of the various
> legacy national numbers for emergency service.
> And in Australia they would dial 000.
>
> Do you route all these calls to Britain? Do you use some sort of
> geographical locator database for IP addresses to route the call?
> Do you route the call based on the actual number dialed, i.e. all
> 000 calls go to Australia?
Sounds like a perfect job for anycast.
I dont know how VoIP URIs work, but if there's DNS mapping involved
surely you can set up the appropriate records for _all_ the various
types of emergency number formats to map to the same anycast address.
> --Michael Dillon
regards,
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