[e2e] 911 and cell phones

[Bari, Farooq]

Can the end device be trusted in such matters? Can someone sitting in
say Europe make a VoIP emergency call in US? Should not it be like trust
but verify?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: end2end-interest-bounces at postel.org [mailto:end2end-interest-
> bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of John Wroclawski
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Bob Braden; Black_David at emc.com; dpreed at reed.com
> Cc: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [e2e] 911 and cell phones
> 
> At 9:06 AM -0800 4/1/05, Bob Braden wrote:
> >What does this topic have to do with the end-to-end
principle/practice?
> >
> >Bob Braden
> 
> Actually, it does seem to - when you strip lots of detail away a key
> question seems to be the architectural choice of "end system knows
> where it is and tells the dispatcher" vs "infrastructure expected to
> know where the thing using it is". Interesting that both VoIP and
> cellular tech are apparently pushing the architecture towards a more
> e2e model.
> 
> --john