Re: [Ecrit] country specific emergency URNs

[Christer Holmberg <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

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

Great.

The question then is whether we should update RFC 5031, to make it more clear.

Regards,

Christer

> 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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