[VOIPSEC] VOIP for free??

[Brian Rosen]

I've spent the better part of the last two years working on this, and I 
think you are dead wrong.

Here is my example.  There is a phone in your home office.  You go out 
one evening and hire a babysitter to watch your kids.  It doesn't occur 
to you to mention to her that the phone in your office doesn't provide 
9-1-1 service.  Your kid chokes on something, and that's the  phone she 
reaches for.

We have spent the last 40 years drilling into kids that the way you get 
help is to call 9-1-1, and we didn't teach them that some phones work 
and others don't.

Every phone, or anyrhing that might be interpretted by users as a phone 
MUST be able to be used to summon help.  If it doesn't wok, people die.  
It's that simple.

It gets worse.  If you have kids that are around 13-18 or so, you  will 
see that they text (sms) more often than call.  Texting 9-1-1 must work, 
as well as IMing 9-1-1.

We're working on making this work, and we expect to suceed.  Even with 
free services.

Brian