asterisk users - Jul 2005 - OT: Potential reasonable solution to the 911 problem, integrate t o Asterisk?

>From Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/07/21/0135213.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 :

"One of the points made is that there is sometimes no way to tell the
location of a VOIP phone, which is a problem if you are unable to talk.

How about if the VOIP app. insisted that you record a 30 second emergency
message (stating your location/name/whatever) when being installed and then
watched what numbers you were dialling. If you ever dialled 911, and then if
there was more than 20 seconds of dead airtime, began to play the message
over and over. "

Which seems like a reasonable stopgap measure. I don't think it would be
hard to make an AGI app that does this; the first time that you called out
any number with a new Asterisk install it would intercept it and
Allison-prompts would walk you through recording this message. After the
message gets recorded, call flow would continue normally. 

I'm just throwing this out as an idea to see if anyone becomes inspired. If
this AGI gets created, it would be a community service kind of thing, I
can't see it as compliance with FCC regs. It would be nice to see this
integrated into a@h.

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:14 -0600, Colin Anderson wrote:
> >From Slashdot
> http://slashdot.org/articles/05/07/21/0135213.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 :
> 
> "One of the points made is that there is sometimes no way to tell the
> location of a VOIP phone, which is a problem if you are unable to talk.
> 
> How about if the VOIP app. insisted that you record a 30 second emergency
> message (stating your location/name/whatever) when being installed and then
> watched what numbers you were dialling. If you ever dialled 911, and then
if
> there was more than 20 seconds of dead airtime, began to play the message
> over and over. "
> 
> Which seems like a reasonable stopgap measure. I don't think it would
be
> hard to make an AGI app that does this; the first time that you called out
> any number with a new Asterisk install it would intercept it and
> Allison-prompts would walk you through recording this message. After the
> message gets recorded, call flow would continue normally. 
IMHO, the benefit of this might increase if you also looked at the IP
address the call is from, so if the IP the call is from changes, then
you re-request the recording. Might need to relax this to allow IP's
within a /19 or something though....
You might also re-request this message every 6 months or some other
basis... don't restrict the length of the message, but as a guideline,
you might suggest the user record something along the lines of "This is
a recording I made on <date>, my address is <address> my mobile
phone
number is <number>, this message is playing because I have dialled 911
and haven't said anything" that way you inform the operator how old the
recording is, your address, and your mobile number (so they can possibly
track you down / call you)...

Just my 0.02c