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Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: ConvergedNetwork Threat)
- From: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
- Date: Thu Feb 26 11:38:30 2004
Roland Perry wrote:
In article
<578F3C8F6DD3D411850600508BF320CA03A60E64@aries-exch1.uk.eu.corp.vizzavi.
net>, "Pendergrass, Greg" <Greg.Pendergrass@vodafone.com> writes
if you want to call an ambulance you DON'T use the internet
And you also need a way to persuade the Ambulance Service not to
terminate their calls via VoIP, or send dispatch instructions via
public-IP over GSM (or whatever) to their vehicles.
I think we will need also to make it illegal (to control the liability
issues) to need emergency assistance in a place whose only link
is via "public-IP". (I hear that there are places in Papua New Guinea
that are being brought "on-line" where everything (EVERYthing) else is
stone-age-standard.)
Or the IP bits need to be assured as "good enough" that it doesn't matter.
It's perhaps three years since I heard that there was real possibility
of some of the above. That stable door may be more open than you think.
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