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On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:18:42 -0800 Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe Abley wrote: > > This is straying far from network operations, but I think 911 > > generally engenders an unnecessary degree of hysteria. As I > > suggested before, the marketing of this fear from certain quarters > > has apparently been quiet effective. > > > > The probability of any single individual needing to call 911 is > > already minute. The probably that all available cell and VoIP > > services also won't work precisely at the moment that a 911 call > > needs to be made is even smaller. > > We haven't really had a major catastrophe where we've been totally > dependent on IP yet, AFIAK. Maybe all of the qos, call gapping and > the rest of the stuff the TDM networks do to deal with disasters > will be left in the dustbin of Moore's Law, but maybe they won't. > One thing is certain: we'll definitely find out one day, and it's not > likely to be from a position of having taken the precautions, > congratulating ourselves IMO. > http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10569 is probably worth reading. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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