Re: [Ecrit] AD evaluation: draft-ietf-ecrit-car-crash-19

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 9:14 AM -0500 12/16/16, Alissa Cooper wrote:

>  Thanks Randy. I think this is ready for last call now. I have a 
> couple of comments below that can be resolved together with last 
> call comments.
>
>>  On Dec 15, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Randall Gellens 
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>  = Section 10.1 =
>>>
>>>  I don't understand why support for messages would be assumed to be
>>>  cumulative in the order in which messages end up being registered
>>>  in the registry. Why isn't the case where a vehicle supports
>>>  messages 1, 3, and 5 but not 2 and 4 a possible case?
>>
>>  The expectation is that there will be few static messages; there
>>  isn't a basis for IVS implementations to pick which ones to support,
>>  especially since it is text that is displayed on a screen, so the
>>  complexity of only supporting some messages outweighs the cost of
>>  supporting a set up to a known value.
>
>  It would be helpful to include a sentence similar to the above in 
> the document.

Happy to add text as a Last Call comment.

>   > = Section 10.2 =
>   >
>>>
>>>  (2) It seems to me that the static message with msgid=1 and the
>>>  dynamic message provided here are contradictory. One says that help
>>>  is not on the way and the other says that it is. Why would a PSAP
>>>  send both of these messages?
>>
>>  Static message 1 only says that the PSAP can't accept the voice call
>>  (nothing about sending help or not), so I don't see it as
>>  contradictory. 
>
>  I guess when I read "We will help you as soon as possible" that 
> sounds to me like it could be a long time from now, which is 
> different from "Help is on the way." But I see how others might 
> interpret the first one differently.

I will ask the NENA PSAP OPS committee to review that static message 
and suggest improved wording.

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