RE: [Geopriv] NENA Requirements

You must be getting the good stuff... :) -----Original Message----- From: Marc Linsner [mailto:mlinsner@cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:37 AM To: Winterbottom, James; 'Richard Barnes' Cc: 'GEOPRIV' Subject: RE: [Geopriv] NENA Requirements James, Richard, We are not moving to an IP-based infrastructure. We are moving to the Internet, where the are dragons and lots of scary things. -Marc- > -----Original Message----- > From: Winterbottom, James [mailto:James.Winterbottom@andrew.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:15 PM > To: Richard Barnes; Andrew Newton > Cc: Ted Hardie; Dawson, Martin; Marc Linsner; GEOPRIV > Subject: RE: [Geopriv] NENA Requirements > > This is very well stated and I completely agree with you Richard. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Barnes [mailto:rbarnes@bbn.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2007 2:56 AM > > To: Andrew Newton > > Cc: Ted Hardie; Dawson, Martin; Marc Linsner; GEOPRIV > > Subject: Re: [Geopriv] NENA Requirements > > > > > Location signing has been offered as a requirement. It has been > pointed > > > out that location signing is a solution and not a requirement. It > has > > > also been pointed out that the notion of network topology that is > being > > > applied to VoIP by this solution does not match the way > the Internet > > works. > > > > However, the security of voice services (emergency calling in > > particular) depends centrally on the trust relationships that are > > currently encoded in the topology of the PSTN. These trust > > relationships are what need to persist through the transition to an > > IP-based infrastructure. Public-key cryptography is how trust > > relationships are codified and communicated in the modern Internet > > community. From the little I know about it, NENA's VESA > effort seems > > like a good example of this translation. > > > > --Richard > > _______________________________________________ Geopriv mailing list Geopriv@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/geopriv ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any unauthorized use of this email is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [mf2]

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