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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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:22 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > -- If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me. Attachment:
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