Emergency VoIP Update

[Tyler Miller Johnson <>]

As you know, ViDeNet has been developing a plan for emergency voice 
communications using peered h.323 gatekeepers under GDS. Using the 
ViDeNet directory, one can simply search for 'emergency' and identify a 
gateway anywhere in the world to which traffic can be directed.

I received indications of interest from about a dozen schools. To date, 
four institutions have begun implementing this. So far, Ohio State and 
UNC are confirmed working.

I encourage others to view the presentation for more information:
http://www.unc.edu/video/imc/emergency/emergency.ppt

These services are available to any ViDeNet institution. We hope to use 
this as a service in this time of uncertain security, and also as a test 
bed for the exploration of inter-realm authentication and authorization 
architectures, leading toward an accountable mechanism for resource sharing.

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