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

[Brian West]

e911 on voip is kinda like herding minnows..

/b

On May 19, 2005, at 5:55 PM, William Waites wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:55:25PM -0400, steve szmidt wrote:
>
>>
>> The only way around that seem to be to not allow random access at  
>> all. I'm not
>> sure how you detect his location unless he has fixed IP at home.  
>> Unless you
>> leave it up to him to use a website to update his location. (Then  
>> the lovely
>> situation when it's hacked and scrambled.)
>>
>
> Actually, the "correct" place to do this is at the Internet service  
> provider.
> They don't need a static IP if the ISP can somehow make known the  
> ipaddress to
> location mapping. The IP address for the destination of the audio  
> should then
> be passed along in the SIP (or whatever) messages. Problems:  
> protocol interworking,
> proxying, hairpinning, tunneling can make it so that the true IP  
> address is
> difficult to know.
>
> -w
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> William Waites, Consulting Technologist
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