Name: draft-rosen-dns-sos-01
Title: Emergency Call Information in the Domain Name System
State: Active
Authors: Brian Rosen
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-07-21
Location of a caller is essential to processing an emergency call. Location
is needed to correctly route the call, and to correctly dispatch help to
the right place. Location can be specified in geographic (lat/lon/altitude)
or civil (country/provin ce/city/ street/floor/room) forms. Determining
which Emergency Response Center (ERC) should receive the call requires
comparing the callers location to a service area boundary description,
which may require location in geo form. Dispatching a call generally
requires a civil location. There is a need for a way to translate a civil
to a geo or vice versa to the resolution of a room. There is also a need to
publish the service area boundary of the ERC and the emergency responders.
Further, there is a need for a database of legal civil addresses (sometimes
called a Master Street Address Guide) that civil locations may be verified
against to assure correctness, and uniformity of naming so that dispatch is
accurate. The memo proposes a new DDDS application and a new POLY RR to
assist emergency calls.
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