SDO Emergency Services Coordination Workshop
SDO Emergency Services Coordination
Workshop (ESW06)
Background
Summoning police, fire department, ambulance or other emergency
services in case of emergency is one of the fundamental and most-valued
functions of the telephone. As telephone functionality moves
from circuit-switched telephony to Internet telephony, its
users rightfully expect that this core functionality will
continue to work at least as well as is has for the older
technology. New devices and services are being
made available which could be used to make a request for help
which are not traditional telephones, and users are
increasingly expecting them to be used to place emergency
calls. However, many of the technical advantages of
Internet multimedia require re-thinking of the traditional emergency
calling architecture. This challenge also offers an
opportunity to improve the operation of emergency
calling technology, while potentially lowering its cost and
complexity.
Existing emergency services rely exclusively on voice and conventional
text telephony (known as TTY in the United States) media
streams. However, more choices of media offer additional ways
to communicate and evaluate the situation as well as to assist callers
and call takers to handle emergency calls. For example,
instant messaging, wideband speech codecs and video could improve the
ability to communicate
and evaluate the situation and to provide appropriate instruction prior
to arrival of emergency crews. Future emergency services will allow the
creation of sessions of any media type, negotiated between the caller
and PSAP using existing SIP protocol mechanisms (see RFC 3264).
Motivation
Today many standardization activities take place with regard to various
parts of the emergency service architecture. They are, however,
not as coordinated as they could be. There is the danger that
uncoordinated activities lead to solutions that either do not
work in some circumstances or to solutions that lead to duplicate work
due to lack of knowledge of work done by other SDOs.
Early July 2006, the 3GPP CT1 and the IETF ECRIT working group have
organized a joint session on emergency calls. This meeting
was organized by Hannu Hietalahti (3GPP TSG CT chairman),
Hannes Tschofenig (IETF ECRIT) and Marc Linsner (IETF ECRIT)
and turned out to be fruitful to accomplish a better
understanding of each others architectural understanding. This meeting
has motivated us to get in touch with other organizations in a similar
fashion.
Scope & Agenda
This workshop is restricted in scope to citizen to authority
communication. The main topics for discussions will be:
- Unauthenticated network access
- Emergency service identification
- Mapping location to PSAP
- Relationship to other location-based services
- Auxiliary information about the emergency call and caller
- Legal aspects of emergency services
- Architectural aspects of location information delivery
- Location determination
- Location conveyance in SIP
We are particularly interested to see how various organizations and
groups tackle (or plan to address) these challenges.
The organizers are currently preparing the workshop agenda based on the received presentation and paper abstracts.
Please find a rough agenda here.
Please find the timeplan here.
Slides can be found here.
Remote participation is also possible:
- Jabber room esw06@conference.ecotroph.net
Some Jabber clients require room (esw06) and servername (conference.ecotroph.net) to be split.
- Dial-in conference: +1 800 392 6130
PIN Code: 0133663
- Audio/Video streaming: rtsp://128.59.19.184/broadcast/live.rm
Goals
The goals of this workshop are:
- To identifying technical requirement, and to agree how and
where the work can be progressed
- To learn more about the ongoing and upcomming
emergency related work by various organizations
- To synchronize emergency related activities to
produce a workable solution and to intensify the
emergency work among interested
organizations and groups
- To receive and return feedback about ongoing work
As a final goal of the work on emergency service standardization we
want to accomplish
interoperablity. This meeting should move us a step closer to this
goal.
Meeting Venue
The workshop will be hosted by Henning Schulzrinne at Columbia
University/New York.
Columbia University is located at 116th and
Broadway in Manhattan. Further information can be found here:
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/visitor_info.html
and
http://www.campustravel.com/university/columbia/
The meeting will take place at the Davis Auditorium on the 4th floor
(campus level) of the Schapiro Center for Engineering and
Physical Science Research (CEPSR) except for
Friday morning, when we will be in the Interschool Lab, in the same
building,
7th floor.
For directions, see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/resources/directions/
A map of Columbia university can be found here.
A few pictures of the event can be found here.
Meeting Date
Two day workshop on the 5th and 6th October 2006.
The meeting will start with breakfast at 8am, the workshop starts at
9am and will finish around 6pm. On Friday, 6th October, we plan to
finish also at 6pm. A welcome reception is planned for Thursday
evening.
Accommodation
The following list provides a selection of hotels recommended by Columbia University:
*Union Theological Seminary's Landmark Guestrooms Rate Approx. 125 per night.
3041 Broadway at 122nd
St.
total 25 guest rooms
New York, NY
1-212-280-1313
Amsterdam Court Hotel Sept - Dec. $199.
226 West 50th Street
New York,
NY
Columbia ID CUO6
1-888-66-hotel
Ameritania
Hotel
Sept - Dec. $199.
230 West 54th Street
New York,
NY
Columbia ID CUO6
1-888-66-hotel
*Flatotel
Sept - Dec. $239.00
135 West 52nd Street
New York,
NY
Request Columbia Rate
1800-352-8683
http://flatotel.reachlocal.net/
*Hotel
Beacon
Sept - Dec. $165.00
2130 West 75th St.
New York, NY
212-787-1100 ext. 623 Request Columbia Rate
http://beaconhotel.com/
Hotel Belleclaire Sept - Dec. $189.00
250 West 77th Street
New York,
NY
Request Columbia Rate
1-212-362-7700
http://www.hotelbelleclaire.com/
*On the
Ave
Approx. $189.00
2178 West 77th Street
New York, NY
1-212-362-1100
Request Columbia Rate
http://www.ontheave.com/main.htm
**The
Lucerne
Sept - Dec. $185.00
201 West 79th Street
New York, NY 1-212-875-1000
or
Columbia ID: 119
1-800-492-8122
http://www.thelucernehotel.com/index.shtml
Alternatively, Expedia might be useful to find an appropriate hotel nearby Columbia University.
Meeting Organization
This meeting is planned as a public workshop. Due to the number of
expected participants we require indication of
attendance by September, 23rd 2006 October, 2nd 2006 by registering at http://edas.info.
In order to structure the discussions the organizers require
titel and abstracts to be available by September, 16th 2006. Please
indicate the title, the abstract and the expected length of the talk.
Final
presentation slides and full papers have to be available by September,
30th 2006 October, 1st 2006.
The EDAS system will also be used for uploading abstracts and papers.
The EDAS workshop webpage can be found at http://edas.info/4971.
Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be made
available (if unlimited distribution is allowed) through the conference web page.
Each participant will be charged a small fee (100 USD) for food and drinks (for breakfast, lunch, reception, and breaks)
whereby the payment will also be provided via the EDAS system.
Organizations/Groups
Invitations have been sent to contact persons of the following
organizations and groups:
- IETF (GEOPRIV, ECRIT)
- DSL Forum
- IEEE (802.1, IA LLDP MED, 802.11k, 802.11u)
- NENA
- ETSI EMTEL
- 3GPP
- 3GPP2
- ETSI TISPAN
- PacketCable
- ITU-T SG 13, SG 11, SG 2
- GSC
- FCC
- Bundesnetzagentur
- ATIS-ESIF
- EU Commission
- Wimax Forum
- Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
- The Telecommunication Technology Committee
- US Department of Transportation
- OFCOM
- ComCARE
- OCG
- TIA
- OASIS Emergency Management TC group
- EU COCOM
- ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel
You can find the current list of participants here.
Workshop Organizers
Hannes Tschofenig (IETF ECRIT)
Marc Linsner (IETF ECRIT)
Hannu Hietalahti / Atle Monrad (3GPP TSG CT)
Henning Schulzrinne (Meeting Host)
Last modified: 5. October 2006
Last updated by Hannes Tschofenig