FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Sun May 1 23:46:50 UTC 2005


* sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan) [Mon 02 May 2005, 01:45 CEST]:
>Why do you think the ISP knows anything more precise that the 
>information they already give in the IN-ADDR.ARPA name?  Let's encode 
>the ZIP Code in the router DNS name ... (well, someone had to suggest 
>using DNS as the universal database solution eventually).

Well that's fun... whenever you see a phone number you can get its
physical location.  Doesn't sound like such a good idea to me,
privacy-wise.


	-- Niels.

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                              The idle mind is the devil's playground



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