[Asterisk-biz] The FCC VoIP 911 oreder is official.

[William Waites]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
> 
> I believe this to be wording came from the Pulver ruling.   An 
> Interconnected VoIP Provider, in my minds means a provider that 
> has/provides connectivity to the PSTN.

Great can of worms that is.

I think that this will significantly raise the bar. If E911
databases become updateable through some mechanism over the 
Internet in order to provide location information, I can see
the tendency to severely restrict access to this so as to
try to keep the data resonably accurate. But even that isn't 
easy.

Imagine. Someone signs up with ${provider}. Through some web
interface they say that their location is 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500. Then they call 911. 

etc. etc...

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