Amen.

FM


On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 11:19 +0200, Jeroen van Bemmel wrote:
> A point for discussion: I believe below is evidence that the complexity of 
> implementation may hinder deployment of emergency services, and may even be 
> a root cause of things breaking down at a critical moment. People's lives 
> may depend on a proxy interpreting location information properly
> 
> Especially for the use case of emergency calls, would it not be wise to 
> select a much more simple approach/syntax, e.g.:
> Emergency-Location: lat=x; lon=y
> 
> So no XML, no mime/multipart, as simple as possible (no complex semantics, 
> usage-rules etc), something to reduce the barrier of 
> implementation/deployment, and to reduce the risk for interop issues?
> 
> Regards,
> Jeroen
> 
> Brian Rosen wrote:
> > I'd like to point out one thing about this:
> >
> >> This is how they answered for multipart/mime:
> >>     2% I break if someone sends me multipart/mime
> >>    24% I pretend multipart/mime doesn't exist if someone sends it to
> >>    me 24% I ignore multipart/mime but will proxy it or hand it to my
> >> application if it shows up
> >>    10% I try to do something useful with multipart/mime I receive,
> >> but I never send it
> >>     4% I ignore multipart/mime that I receive, but I try to do
> >> something useful with multipart/mime I send
> >>    24% I try to do something useful with multipart/mime I send and
> >> receive
> >>    12% Other
> >
> > Moving forward, SIP UAs and proxies will be required to support
> > location-conveyance (currently draft-ietf-sip-location-conveyance-07)
> > in order to support location for emergency calls (citizen to
> > authority, like 1-1-2 or
> > 9-1-1).  -conveyance requires multipart support.
> >
> > The consequences of not supporting emergency call location will be
> > serious. I believe it is likely that there will eventually be
> > regulatory requirements to support emergency calls in some
> > jurisdictions.  Upgrades to several components of today's
> > infrastructure will be needed before this all works, but stack
> > vendors and UA developers should put multipart (and
> > location-conveyance) on their development plans for next year at the
> > latest.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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