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General Requirements for Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS)
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group K. Carlberg
Request for Comments: 3689 UCL
Category: Informational R. Atkinson
Extreme Networks
February 2004
General Requirements for
Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document presents a list of general requirements in support of
Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS). Solutions to these
requirements are not presented in this document. Additional
requirements pertaining to specific applications, or types of
applications, are to be specified in separate document(s).
1. Introduction
Effective telecommunications capabilities can be imperative to
facilitate immediate recovery operations for serious disaster events,
such as, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks.
Disasters can happen any time, any place, unexpectedly. Quick
response for recovery operations requires immediate access to any
public telecommunications capabilities at hand. These capabilities
include: conventional telephone, cellular phones, and Internet
access via online terminals, IP telephones, and wireless PDAs. The
commercial telecommunications infrastructure is rapidly evolving to
Internet-based technology. Therefore, the Internet community needs
to consider how it can best support emergency management and recovery
operations.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 [1].
Carlberg, et al. Informational