Re: [Ecrit] country specific emergency URNs

[Christer Holmberg <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

 

>>RFC 5031 defines semantics for the sos sub-service, and at least my
>>understanding is that sos is to be used for emergency services, and
>>nothing else.
>
>There is no limit expressed, or implied, that sos is restricted to
>³flashing lights² emergencies.  It¹s suggestive of emergency, but not
>exclusively used that way.
>The counter example was the non-emergency ambulance service.  Using
>sos.ambulance for a non emergency ambulance service, unless a country has
>both an emergency and a
>non-emergency ambulance service that needs urns, is appropriate I think.
>I don¹t think it would be wrong to create a non-emergency ambulance
>registration, but I also don¹t think we
>need to.

I think we should have separate URNs for emergency and non-emergency
services - no matter if the emg and non-emg services are provided in the
same country or in different countries.

>There is no MUST language at all.  Anything is acceptable, although the
>expert review gets to offer an opinion, and take it to the list if
>needed. 
>
>The review is merely supposed to make sure the service is distinct from
>an existing registration.  Registrations are cheap.

Not if we are going to have list discussions about the name whenever a URN
is to be registered. It would prolong the registration and, depending on
who participate in such discussions, the outcome would be very
inconsistent.

So, I strongly think that if the service is an emergency service, we use
sos. If the service is not an emergency service, we don¹t use sos.

And, *URNs* are cheap, so we are not going to ³run out of them² if we use
different ones for emergency services and non-emergency services.

 
>>If we start using non-sos for emergency services, and sos for
>>non-emergency services, I think we will end up in a messŠ
>
>The above example is how I think we don¹t get into a mess.  I don¹t think
>there is a good reason to create an ambulance service that isn¹t in the
>sos tree unless 
>we have an incidence of two services and we need to differentiate.  Even
>if the ambulance service in a country is not considered an emergency
>service, using sos.ambulance for it is fine in my opinion.

I have a different opinion :)

Regards,

Christer