North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP
* Peter & Karin Dambier: > Skype and public domain telefones dont know about location, > nor will they ever learn. > > The only place where somebody could catch a 911 call is at > a sip server. Come on, let's be a bit more creative. Location signalling over IP would be technically feasible. Your ISP does in fact know where your connection ends. Even it's just a tunnel, we eventually get down to layer 1 and bingo, the information is there. Of course, you don't get the necessary infrastructure for free, but you could use it for other services, too (like making identity theft a bit harder). There are privacy implications as well. But I'm not sure if an enticement to develop technical solutions is necessarily a bad thing.
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