[Gen-art] Re: [Ecrit] WG: Review of draft-ietf-ecrit-security-threats-04.txt

Christian Vogt <christian.vogt@nomadiclab.com> Tue, 21 August 2007 06:21 UTC

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Subject: [Gen-art] Re: [Ecrit] WG: Review of draft-ietf-ecrit-security-threats-04.txt
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Henning and Hannes, one brief comment:

>> Maybe this should be clarified either in this document, or in the
>> Requirements document -- in particular because the Requirements document
>> currently only talks about verifying the caller's location, rather than
>> verifying whether there actually exists an emergency case at that
>> location.
>
> The future emergency services infrastructure might be able to handle
> more media types and accept additional data. However, it is quite likely
> that the PSAP operator will not be able to use these things for a long
> time since the capabilities are just not supported by end systems and in
> some cases it might actually be difficult to expect the emergency caller
> to take pictures (given the level of stress they are likely to
> experience during an emergency situation).

Right, and this is in line with what I was saying:  Verification of the
truthfulness of (the extent of) a reported incident cannot be solved by the
ECRIT protocol.  I was suggesting to clarify this in the requirements section.

Best,
- Christian




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