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1998-04-22 - Re: Position escrow

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From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Message Hash: 5be85d650ca48e67b92ec70ea30f271f857b97464ecccf06f456dd3bab3b0f91
Message ID: <199804220101.AA20326@world.std.com>
Reply To: <199804212208.PAA22084@servo.qualcomm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-04-22 01:01:50 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:01:50 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:01:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Position escrow
In-Reply-To: <199804212208.PAA22084@servo.qualcomm.com>
Message-ID: <199804220101.AA20326@world.std.com>
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    This is a really difficult issue.

And how.  

How does this interact with phones whose
access (telephone) number is non-unique?
Could where I am calling from be divorced
from what instrument I am using to call?
Is there a parallel between smearing the
signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies
and smearing the identifying information
over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls
to 911 carry no phone number but just
"here I am" information -- a panic button
function, in other words?

I imagine I sound like someone calling in
to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show...

--dan

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