Re: [Ecrit] Proposal to add "applicability" statementto -framework/-phonebcp

["Rosen, Brian" <Brian.Rosen at neustar.biz>]

I don't want this "loophole" opened any wider than it has to be.  We
know that there are differences between endpoints rather than networks
doing location and routing functions.  Although there are other
differences, they mostly have to do with backwards compatibility with
existing PSTN oriented, nationally defined, existing emergency call
system.  I don't think that needs to be in the scope of the loophole.  

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Gellens [mailto:randy at qualcomm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:44 PM
To: Richard Barnes; Dawson, Martin
Cc: Rosen, Brian; ecrit at ietf.org; drage at alcatel-lucent.com
Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Proposal to add "applicability" statementto
-framework/-phonebcp

At 10:25 AM -0700 3/24/09, Richard Barnes wrote:

>  This document describes an architecture for emergency calling in 
> the typical Internet environment, in which the calling device bears 
> most of the burden of implementing emergency calls, and the 
> caller's Internet Service Provider has a supporting role.  The 
> underlying specifications allow for the network to take a more 
> expansive role in emergency calls, but such cases (and any 
> associated issues) are not covered extensively in this document; 
> rather, they are left for future study in other documents.

How about adding a sentence along the lines of what Keith proposed 
during the meeting, which, if I understood correctly, would be 
something like: "Note that this is one framework for placing 
emergency calls.  Other frameworks may exist, and there is no 
guarantee that an entity implementing this framework will be able to 
interoperate with an entity using a different framework."
-- 
Randall Gellens
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