Andy ponders the consequences of Skype failng the 911/999 duck test.
My take: emergency calling is a property of the LINE and not the SERVICE. It’s the ISP who knows where you are. Pick up your Vonage or Skype phone, move next door to show your neighbours how cool it is, and you shouldn’t have to reregister your address if your host gets a dicky ticker.
In other words, why not make 10.9.1.1 always route to a SIP server which offers IP emergency calling?
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I agree that the correct way to equate the PSTN and IP is at "LINE" level. After all emergency calling is required even for "fax" line. This means that VoIP advocates have to start accept that voice is just an application in PSTN as well.
There is a social benefit as well. If this view takes hold, it will be much easier to politically introduce that emergency calling should include some data services as well.
Posted by: at December 10, 2007 01:08 PM