How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

Fri Feb 27 22:35:58 UTC 2004

>>[1] Should VoIP include 911/999 service, and how does one resolve the
>>various geographic location issues associated with this.

I'm glad that got people talking :-)

[snip - one of the many issues; I think you route the call to India and 
have someone ask the user where they are, then re-route the voice based 
on the answer. But first you need to de-dupe the numbers that are 
Emergency in one country and a normal service in another; say 911 was 
the weather forecast in Greenland... ]

>Personally I don't think the regulators have a clear
>enough grasp of the technical issues to be prescribing
>solutions for this issue.

Some do. And specifically in the UK they have a joint committee with 
industry to get properly to grips with the technology.

-- 
Roland Perry