And how do the cell phone operators know what floor you’re on? — Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors.
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:49 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It used to be, then the whole Ray Baum thing, and now it's not. Short story: > 911 call failed to identify the specific floor/office, person died. Now you > have to provide enough info for a first responder to reach a person without > help, which also means opening main doors if needed. There's simply no way > that a laptop will give that specificity. Will it be sufficient to say that > they are near the AP on the third floor southwest corner? The letter of the > law seems to say "no." > > > >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:40 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps >> <voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: >> I wonder if doing GeoIP via a commercial database like MaxMind—and we all >> know how perfect a location mechanism that is—could be construed as a >> sufficient “best effort” in this case. >> >> > On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Ours doesn't, but that's a good idea to share with the vendor. But in >> > most cases, people are using the softphone on a laptop and there's no >> > native phone app, nor a GPS, nor any other location info other than >> > proximate wi-fi networks. >> > >> > I can see no feasible way to meet the letter of the law, and hate to be >> > depending on the good graces of a bureaucrat to know that it's an >> > impossible task. >> >> -- >> Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC >> >> Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) >> Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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