Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Wed Jul 20 20:43:11 UTC 2005
Forget defeat, just look at the normal margin of error...
Forget fixed-line services, location is easy to solve for that. Let's look
at
things like a guy sitting on a mountain top with a BBQ grill antenna, and
amp,
and a WiFi card. I could make VOIP calls from Apple's public Wireless
network
from 25 miles away on top of Loma Prietta if I wanted to. (In fact, I did
once,
just to test it). If someone put a wireless bridge up there, then, I could
make
the same call from downtown Monterey. The first IP device would still be in
Cupertino. I'd be in a different county (at least 2 counties away), in a
different LATA, and, in completely different CHP dispatch zones. Even CDF
would expect me to be talking to a different dispatch center.
Doing this right is not only hard, but, it's also just not that desirable in
my opinion. It's a huge invasion of privacy as far as I'm concerned.
Owen
--On July 20, 2005 3:19:41 PM -0500 Shane Owens
<shaneowens at dna-communications.com> wrote:
>
> Why not standardize this across the board for all access devices? As an
> example if my Broadband provider was required to enter location
> information in my cable modem so that when I connected a VOIP device
> (ATA, IAD, PC, etc) it would query the first IP device it encountered and
> gather location data that would solve a lot of these problems. Any
> solution can be circumvented so no solution will be perfect, but this
> idea seems easy enough to accomplish with existing technology. It would
> even fix the VPN connection issue, unless the user was purposefully
> trying to obfuscate himself in which case I don't think we are
> necessarily concerned about his ability to contact emergency services.
>
> Shane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:22 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service
>
>
> <snip>
> Maybe we should lobby government to require Wi-Fi access point
> manufacturers to include location information in their devices. After
> that, the VoIP operators and the Wi-Fi access operators should be able to
> sort out some protocol for sharing the location info.
>
> Welcome to the 21st century! They never said it was going to be easy.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
>
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