[*] [Fwd: IETF taking on 911 problem within VoIP]

[Bill Reid]

IETF taking on 911 problem within VoIP

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

The Internet engineering community is making progress on the
thorny issue of how best to route emergency communications such
as 911 calls over the Internet.

This yearlong effort is important for companies and government
agencies that are migrating to VoIP and must ensure that police
and firefighters can locate and respond to 911 calls placed from
IP phones in their office buildings.

The IETF hopes to have a technical solution for the 911 problem
ready for testing by year-end. The IETF effort is called ECRIT
for Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies.

"From a societal perspective, ECRIT is one of the most important
problems that the IETF is undertaking right now," says Henning
Schulzrinne, chair of the department of computer science at
Columbia University and author of several documents under
consideration by the ECRIT working group.

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<http://www.networkworld.com/nltechupdate26544>.