At 5:10 PM -0500 4/3/02, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>.....
>Emergency calls are probably the single most important reason that
>people care about location; most everything else is somewhere between
>toy and "nice to have".
I can't prove it, but I do not think this is correct. Emergency
calls are certainly going to be, initially, the main place where
location is used in a "critical" manner. But I doubt that 911/SOS
location tracking will be the big market driver for these services --
I expect that the "nice to have" services will drive deployment of
location capable devices, and the ability of the services to also
help out in an emergency will either be a market or (in some places)
regulatory requirement.
But, in any event, I'm not sure that it makes a key difference here.
At the end of the day, we need to be able to support emergency
location tracking while at the same time protect privacy in the "nice
to have" contexts. I do not think that the WG will have succeeded if
we cannot achieve both goals (at least for devices that have a
moderate amount of processing power).
John
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Received on Wed Apr 3 17:40:23 2002
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