Re: [rtcweb] RTCWEB and emergency services

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Tue, 27 September 2011 19:45 UTC

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2011/9/27 Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>:
> If you must describe in the terms of telephony, please circumscribe your
> terms--"For RTCWeb applications intended to provide telephony services, the
> following considerations apply...."  But generalizing the whole application
> space to telephony, even for the benefit of emergency services, is not where
> I think we ought to go.

I agree. I don't know where this topic comes from, but IMHO it makes
no sense to consider a WebRTC provider a "usual" PSTN operator. It
would be a show-stopper.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>