At 13:25 21/12/2000 -0500, Folts, Harold wrote:
>In March 2000, the ITU-T established Recommendation E.106, A Description of
>an International Emergency Preference Scheme (IEPS). This Recommendation
>presents the basic requirements for preferential treatment of critical
>communications to support recovery operations from serious disasters such as
>earthquakes and severe storms. While E.106 is based upon Public Switched
>Telephone Network (PSTN) services, considerable effort is underway to
>migrate these capabilities to next generation networks based upon Internet
>technology.
note - this effort is focused at recovering the society from a serious
disaster, not recovering the network, I think.
>The first issue of pursuit is to ensure an effective interface between the
>PSTN and IP-telephony services.
this strikes me as a profoundly strange approach, but I may be biased.
> It is expected that this interface will
>touch on a number of work areas in the IETF. Many of the capabilities and
>protocol mechanisms may already exist and need to be identified and adapted
>as necessary. There could also be some areas where additional work may be
>needed. Nevertheless, we expect that coordination and interaction with
>various IETF work areas will be needed to help fulfill the requirements for
>IEPS in next generation networks.
Reactions I've heard vary from "their ideas are just too broken for words"
to "what they want can be built easily using DiffServ - this should be a
call for tender, not a standardization proposal".
Clarity of desired outcome may be a Good Thing.
>At IETF 48 in Pittsburgh we had a BOF on IEPS where the background and
>considerations for IEPS were presented. We hope to have another BOF with
>more detailed discussion at IETF 50 in Minneapolis. Two Internet Drafts on
>IEPS have been posted and are available at www.iepscheme.net along with
>other relevant documents. We also have established an Email List for
>discussion of the IEPS issues. You are invited to subscribe using the
>instructions provided at the IEPS web site and contribute to the discussions
>and progress of work.
Mentioning the location of the mailing list may not be a bad idea.
>Many thanks for you interest and support.
>
>Hal
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