Re: [Ecrit] Emergency Call Framework for Canada; Questions on draft-ietf-ecrit-framework-09

["Stark, Barbara" <bs7652 at att.com>]

Many retail home routers have been end-of-lifed by their manufacturers.
It is highly unrealistic to expect upgrades to be made available for
these. It is, likewise, unrealistic to expect the average consumer to
know that an upgrade exists (when it does exist) or to know to apply
such an upgrade.

Discovery of the WAN IP address through a mechanism such as STUN, and
then doing a reverse DNS look-up for a LIS server does indeed remain the
best option during the many-year-long transition time frame, for the
case where an end device isn't able to get location info or LIS info via
DHCP.

But I'm fine for the IETF not to document or provide a BCP for that. I
can go elsewhere for refining best practices. Which is why I don't
really care to argue this question anymore. I mainly need the IETF to
provide the basic standards, and the basic framework. Which I think
they're doing a good job at getting around to. If those documents could
just make that final leap to RFC status ...
Barbara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecrit-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of James M. Polk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:49 PM
> To: John Lange; Brian Rosen
> Cc: 'ecrit'
> Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Emergency Call Framework for Canada; Questions on
> draft-ietf-ecrit-framework-09
> 
> At 04:19 PM 6/2/2009, John Lange wrote:
> >That is why I'm advocating a closer look at something like STUN + DNS
> >for LIS discovery. It will work, allows OBO and requires no new
> >hardware.
> 
> 
> James -- upgrading residential gateways to support (DHCP) Option 99
> or 123 requires no new hardware either.... (last I checked)
> 
> James
> 
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