A while ago, Ian first introduced me to the great idea that is VoIP: Basically, that you have a phone ethernetted to your comp, and you dial: two-four-dot-three-nine-dot-one-five-eight-dot-one-nine.... huzzah, your friend's etherwired phone rings and you start talking over a streaming audio line.
Well, now the CRTC has noticed VoIP in a bit of more serious/official light, and they have now ruled that 911 services must be made available by VoIP providers (from google news). Huzzah! Hopefully we'll see this being phased in over the next five years, with any luck it can come bouncing in with the ipv6 upgrade that will become necessary as more and more ip addresses go missing.
Posted by ebbomega at April 5, 2005 06:30 PM