[Asterisk-biz] Vonage bows to 911 pressure

[Paul]

Vonage has finally figured it out. When they fought the regulators and 
won, they often won for all of us. Maybe they actually want the 
regulators to impose some requirements that will help eliminate some of 
the smaller voip providers/innovators.

We really need to convince the regulators that mandatory 911 support for 
voip is senseless. Wireless 911 is based on the tower you are using at 
the time, not the wireless company you have an account with. Real 911 
support for voip would place a burden on the ISP to provide IP to 
physical address mapping. Even worse, the voip provider might have to 
refuse device registration when such mapping is not available in order 
to comply with the regulations. You take your ata or softphone to a 
hotel whose ISP does not provide the mapping and you can't make calls. 
That dog won't hunt.