My apologies for the cross-posting. If you are a business or individual providing Voice over IP services in Canada then we encourage you to read this email carefully otherwise please disregard. ----- As you are most likely aware, the CRTC has undertaken the roll of regulating VoIP services in Canada and is currently conducting hearings with the goal of putting in place regulatory requirements for all VoIP providers. Specifically, the CRTC's CISC VoIP 911 working group ( http://www.crtc.gc.ca/cisc/eng/cisf3e4_20.htm ) is very actively looking at what regulations to put in place in order to implement E911 services for VoIP. The recommendations of this committee will have direct impact on your business. Currently this working group is is largely comprised by the Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs & CLECs) with representation from the large VoIP providers (Primus & Vonage). To date only a very few smaller VoIP providers are participating. Subsequently, much of the discussion is oriented around solutions designed to work in the traditional telco world. Depending on your companies infrastructure these solutions may be very expensive or completely impossible for your business to implement. Some members of the working group are even of the position that VoIP service be abolished altogether. Your companies direct participation in the hearings is the best way to have an impact. However, we acknowledge that not all companies have the time and/or resources to fully participate lengthy public hearings. It is with this in mind we propose the formation of a Canadian industry association for VoIP providers and we invite you to participate. The short term goal is to contact and organize Canadian VoIP providers into a formal association. Longer term the association will work towards the following goals: - Keep VoIP providers informed about current regulatory issues - Ensuring VoIP providers have a place at the CRTC table - Develop industry recommendations - Communicate industry recommendations to the CRTC working group - Communicate industry positions to the media - Other (to be determined by the association) At the outset it is envisioned that this group would work in the following way: - No membership fee - Regular updates via email list - Frequent Conference calls - No face-to-face meetings (no travel) - Development of an Industry web site - In-person representation at each CRTC meeting (The CRTC working group meets monthly in a different province each month. We hope to have at least one member representative attend each meeting.) To voice your support (or opposition) for the formation of this group please contact me directly either by email or telephone (contact information in the signature). It is important that you do not delay. CISC working group recommendations to the CRTC are forthcoming. You will be contacted with details on how to participate in the formation of this association. Our intention is to hold our first conference call as early as possible (early next week). NOTE: No web site or association material yet exists because the group has not been officially formed and named. This will be one of the first items of business for the new group. Regards, -- John Lange President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872 VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location
Doug Meredith
2005-Oct-13 06:38 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: Canadian Association of VoIP Providers
John Lange <john.lange@open-it.ca> wrote:>My apologies for the cross-posting.If you think you should apologize for it, don't do it. If you think it is okay to do it, don't apologize. Doug -- Doug Meredith (doug.meredith@systemguard.com) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com
Colin Anderson
2005-Oct-13 07:17 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Canadian Association of VoIP Providers
Hi, please add me to the mailing list I also can donate webspace, bandwidth, IAX local dialtone to 780 area code, and DNS services. btw how are you going to do the conference call, with MeetMe? -----Original Message----- From: John Lange [mailto:john.lange@open-it.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:17 PM To: Asterisk; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion; Asterisk Developers Mailing List; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; Cisco-VoIP Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Canadian Association of VoIP Providers My apologies for the cross-posting. If you are a business or individual providing Voice over IP services in Canada then we encourage you to read this email carefully otherwise please disregard. ----- As you are most likely aware, the CRTC has undertaken the roll of regulating VoIP services in Canada and is currently conducting hearings with the goal of putting in place regulatory requirements for all VoIP providers. Specifically, the CRTC's CISC VoIP 911 working group ( http://www.crtc.gc.ca/cisc/eng/cisf3e4_20.htm ) is very actively looking at what regulations to put in place in order to implement E911 services for VoIP. The recommendations of this committee will have direct impact on your business. Currently this working group is is largely comprised by the Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs & CLECs) with representation from the large VoIP providers (Primus & Vonage). To date only a very few smaller VoIP providers are participating. Subsequently, much of the discussion is oriented around solutions designed to work in the traditional telco world. Depending on your companies infrastructure these solutions may be very expensive or completely impossible for your business to implement. Some members of the working group are even of the position that VoIP service be abolished altogether. Your companies direct participation in the hearings is the best way to have an impact. However, we acknowledge that not all companies have the time and/or resources to fully participate lengthy public hearings. It is with this in mind we propose the formation of a Canadian industry association for VoIP providers and we invite you to participate. The short term goal is to contact and organize Canadian VoIP providers into a formal association. Longer term the association will work towards the following goals: - Keep VoIP providers informed about current regulatory issues - Ensuring VoIP providers have a place at the CRTC table - Develop industry recommendations - Communicate industry recommendations to the CRTC working group - Communicate industry positions to the media - Other (to be determined by the association) At the outset it is envisioned that this group would work in the following way: - No membership fee - Regular updates via email list - Frequent Conference calls - No face-to-face meetings (no travel) - Development of an Industry web site - In-person representation at each CRTC meeting (The CRTC working group meets monthly in a different province each month. We hope to have at least one member representative attend each meeting.) To voice your support (or opposition) for the formation of this group please contact me directly either by email or telephone (contact information in the signature). It is important that you do not delay. CISC working group recommendations to the CRTC are forthcoming. You will be contacted with details on how to participate in the formation of this association. Our intention is to hold our first conference call as early as possible (early next week). NOTE: No web site or association material yet exists because the group has not been officially formed and named. This will be one of the first items of business for the new group. Regards, -- John Lange President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872 VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users