Subject: RE: [Ecrit] Issue

From: "Winterbottom, James" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:24:17 -0600

I completely agree with this assessment.
This is a provisioning requirement.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf
Of
> Roger Marshall
> Sent: Friday, 23 December 2005 10:17 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: [Ecrit] Issue
> 
> Bringing this one back up for discussion in order to resolve the
logged
> issue.
> 
> Issue 15: Validation of civic location
> 
> Currently written as:
> Lo1.  Validation of civic location: It MUST be possible to
> validate a civic location prior to its use in an actual emergency
call.
> 
> Motivation: Location validation provides an opportunity to
> help assure ahead of time, whether successful mapping to the
> appropriate PSAP will likely occur when it is required.  Validation
may
> also help to avoid delays during emergency call setup due to invalid
> locations.
> 
> The following questions were raised from the list, but never
resolved...
> "Is this a protocol requirement or an architecture requirement?  When
> should this validation take place?"
> 
> My comment:
> This requirement doesn't really say anything about the mapping
protocol.
> We know that all kinds of things are possible prior to an emergency
> call.  Additionally, we know that the mapping protocol should have a
> valid location as input to the mapping function in order to be
> successful.  Nevertheless, I contend that it is not the job of the MP
to
> specify this.  If a "non-valid" address is used, it will either map or
> not map to a URI, in which case an error will result.  One person's
> architecture may take advantage of this fact, always employ
validation,
> and become more robust than next guy's.
> 
> 
> I say that we should delete this requirement, Lo1.  Other comments?
> 
> 
> Roger Marshall.
> 
> 
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