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Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

  • From: Chris Boyd
  • Date: Mon May 02 15:12:30 2005

On May 1, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Chris Boyd wrote:
s/zipcode/unique geographic identifier on the rough order of a square
mile/
Or have the server return the SNMP location information.  The network
operator would then be able to configure locally meaningful
information.
Why do you think the ISP knows anything more precise that the information
they already give in the IN-ADDR.ARPA name?
Sorry--Made an ambigous "network operator" reference there. I meant the operator of the LAN, not the ISP.

This would be a similar responsibility to what PBX admins already have to do, as others have pointed out. Less clueful and/or home users would need to have dire warnings printed in the doc and displayed on screen about configuring the correct location information, but that can easily be done in new equipment and updates to older software.

Adding the information as a DHCP option sounds interesting. Maybe bears further discussion....?

--Chris