Re: [emergency] FW: International Alerting - IETF

There is a considerable amount of standards work completed or in progress 
in the IETF related to emergency services. Much of this work has to do with how 
emergency information is created, transmitted, packaged, etc as part of the 
internet infrastructure. Examples are storing location of an IP address as part 
of DHCP, creation and transmission of location for an IP enabled phone (VoIP 
issues), Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies (ECRIT), 
Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM), Session Initiation Protocol (SI)) Location 
Conveyance (uses GML), Presence Identity Data Formal - Location Object (uses 
GML), Location-to-Service Translation Protocol (LoST - uses GML) and on and 
on.

 

Much of this work began before or during the CAP 1.0 effort. The work of 
the IETF in this area is still evolving as they look to geo-enable other facets 
of the infrastructure of the internet.

 

Any one of these internet standards could provide content to generate a CAP 
message.

 

Cheers

Carl

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  Sukumar 
  Dwarkanath 

  
To:  
  

  
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:38 
  AM

  
Subject: [emergency] FW: International 
  Alerting - IETF

  

  

  
I 
  came across this yesterday, and thought I will bring it to the TC’s attention. 
  

  
 

  
Sukumar

  
 

  
 

  
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2. >From the Membership 
  Director - David McAuley

  
 

  
In addition, ISOC’s 
  Chairman, Fred Baker, and former Chairman, Brian Carpenter, have created an 
  Internet Draft within the IETF process to propose a way in which people could 
  be warned of an impending event in a geographic region. This is similar to and 
  may use services such as the US Emergency Alert System, but differs in that 
  message distribution is targeted only to the affected locality. A URL for this 
  Internet-Draft

  
is:

  
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-baker-alert-system-00.txt>