Re: [Ecrit] country specific emergency URNs

[Brian Rosen <[e-mail]>]

As in my prior message to Gunnar, I’m convinced; let’s have non-emergency services, including one for ambulance.

Brian
> On Jul 13, 2017, at 2:38 AM, Christer Holmberg <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>>> 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.
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>> There is no limit expressed, or implied, that sos is restricted to
>> łflashing lights˛ emergencies.  Itąs 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 donąt think it would be wrong to create a non-emergency ambulance
>> registration, but I also donąt think we
>> need to.
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> 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.
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>> 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. 
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>> The review is merely supposed to make sure the service is distinct from
>> an existing registration.  Registrations are cheap.
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> 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.
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> So, I strongly think that if the service is an emergency service, we use
> sos. If the service is not an emergency service, we donąt use sos.
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> And, *URNs* are cheap, so we are not going to łrun out of them˛ if we use
> different ones for emergency services and non-emergency services.
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>>> If we start using non-sos for emergency services, and sos for
>>> non-emergency services, I think we will end up in a messŠ
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>> The above example is how I think we donąt get into a mess.  I donąt think
>> there is a good reason to create an ambulance service that isnąt 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.
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> I have a different opinion :)
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> Regards,
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> Christer
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