Enhanced 911 for VoIP Standards and Regulatory SOURCE: TIA TITLE: E911 for VoIP – Standards and Regulatory AGENDA ITEM: Joint 4.2 Emergency Communications CONTACT: Bill Belt gsc11_joint_52 Enhanced 911 for VoIP Standards and Regulatory

Regulatory Activities FCC Report and Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in E911 Requirements for IP-Enabled Service Providers (WC Docket No. 04-36 and 05-196), released June 3, 2005 Orders interconnected VoIP providers to deliver all 911 calls to the customer’s local emergency operator. This must be a standard, rather than optional, feature of the service. This order is effective November 28, 2005. Orders interconnected VoIP providers to provide emergency operators with the call back number and location information of their customers (i.e., E911) where the emergency operator is capable of receiving it. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

Regulatory Activities Orders interconnected VoIP providers to inform their customers, both new and existing, of the E911 capabilities and limitations of their service. Orders incumbent LECs to provide access to their E911 networks to any requesting telecommunications carrier. They must continue to provide access to trunks, selective routers, and E911 databases to competing carriers. FCC opens investigation of advanced E911 solutions that include a method for determining a customer's location without the customer having to self report this information. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

Regulatory Activities TIA response on September 12, 2005 TIA urged the Commission to refrain from requiring VoIP providers to automatically provide location information by an arbitrarily imposed June 2006 deadline. The standards development process that will aid the transmission of automatic location information in IP-based networks is well underway in the industry and progress is demonstrable. Any technology mandate or arbitrary deadline for completing these standards efforts will not speed the process. In fact, such actions could well prove to be counterproductive and actually delay the development of necessary technologies and standards. Urged the FCC to ensure that innovation and technological neutrality are at the forefront of its initiative to bring E911 service to VoIP users. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Standards Activities TIA Engineering Committee TR41 has approved a default ballot in TIA-1057, Link Level Discovery Protocol (LLDP) – Media Endpoint Discovery (MED). This document is an extension of the IEEE 802.1ab LLDP protocol that will allow, among other things, VoIP terminals to automatically discover and report their location for E911 purposes. This standardization effort was highlighted in TIA’s response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications