Re: [Ecrit] Why an applicability statement to framework and BCP is not required

[Ted Hardie <hardie at qualcomm.com>]

At 3:05 PM -0700 3/25/09, Winterbottom, James wrote:
>Actually Ted I don't recall see an explicit reference to a 3GPP specification that address the problem I have described below. Indeed my recollection, admittedly it has been some time since I have looked at the 3GPP solution in detail, was that this deployment is deemed out of scope. That is, 3GPP do not have a solution for it, but recognize it as being an issue. ECRIT fills this hole. Applicability to only packet deployments is not in question I hope, consequently how that packet is provided is also, I hope, not an issue, otherwise need to consider applicability to every other type of physical access network. Indeed this same argument can be posed for every IETF protocol or framework document.
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>If we have to have an applicability statement, and I don't think we do, then it should be even more simple than what has been currently proposed.
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>"This document applies to all devices and networks that participate in Internet emergency calling".

That's a pretty major revision of Framework, Section 4.  That claims to consider all
private networks using IP.  See:

   Devices that create media sessions and exchange audio, video and/or
   text, and have the capability to establish sessions to a wide variety
   of addresses, and communicate over private IP networks or the
   Internet, should support emergency calls.

If you are meeting that remit, you need to acknowledge that other
functional entities exist and are currently doing their best to get
the emergency calls to their responders.  If you want to limit
this to something that passes *your* view of what constitutes
the Internet, then we have a bigger problem.

Again, just speaking for myself,
				Ted