RE: [Geopriv] (dis)connects in the location by reference discussion

Yippee - we're going to have dedicated IP trunks for emergency services
just like we did for local exchanges.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henning Schulzrinne [mailto:hgs@cs.columbia.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, 16 September 2006 8:19 AM
> To: Winterbottom, James
> Cc: GEOPRIV; Andrew Newton
> Subject: Re: [Geopriv] (dis)connects in the location by reference
> discussion
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand your paragraph. With 10 VPCs across the
> US, the VPC serving NJ would most likely be in some neighboring state.
> Thus, if long-distance connectivity is impaired, the emergency call
fails.
>
> A local PSAP could simply connect directly to the nearest cable
headend
> and DSL DSLAM - after all, it's likely in the same community. (As for
> most towns in Bergen County, next to NYC, our PSAP is within a mile or
> two of most residences.)
>
> For emergency calls, I don't need a VSP, just my local cable or DSL
> headend or DSLAM (and associated IP equipment).
>
> Requiring national infrastructure to be up to place a local phone call
> is not a great design, in my book. As some people like to say, we
> shouldn't do worse than the old system.
>
> Henning
>
> Winterbottom, James wrote:
> > So you are saying that the PSAP based in NJ, can connect to the ISP
in
> > Ca, but the VPC can't? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Remember
> > that in DSL there are multiple parties, and that the PSAP will only
know
> > about the layer3 and above provider.
> >
> > I guess I just don't buy this argument at all.
> >
> > Cheers
> > James
> >
>
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