Talk:Enhanced 911

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[edit] Confusion

This article uses a lot of acronyms, which tend to bewilder and confuse those unfamiliar with the system being described. It might be possible to convert many of these to their corresponding expansions, or a more descriptive common noun that refers to the same thing. -- Beland 01:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

More points of confusion...

  • The acronym CAMA is unexplained.
  • I'm not sure I got the expansion for ESN right.
  • The acronum MF is unexplained.
  • I'm not sure what's going on with all the business about trunks in the "Wireline Enhanced 911" section; perhaps someone who understands the connection sequence can clarify.
  • The phrase "the ANI" is confusing and should be avoided.
  • The legal penalty in most states for ALI database lookup failure is a strict requirement that they fix the database entry eventually. I'm not sure if there's actual penalty which is not mentioned, or if this is supposed to say something like In most states, the ___ is required to (eventually) fix the database if a lookup failure occurs. What is the timeframe for "eventually", anyway?
  • There is some amount of overlap and inconsistency with the article 9-1-1.

-- Beland 02:07, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

To fix some of the confusion points above:

  • modified most of the ANI references to refer to calling party number
  • linked MF to the article for MF. The article for MF is not much better, but better than nothing.
  • clarified how the calling party number is used with the ALI database
  • reworded the 'legal penalty' section. removed word 'eventually' as it is ambiguous.
  • reworded the selective router section; hopefully it is clearer.
  • rewroded the trunking descriptions; hopefully it is clearer.
  • it is possible that the trunking section belongs in the general 911 article; the 'enhanced 911' description simply needs to state that ANI must be passed on the trunks for enhanced 911 to work; perhaps a separate 'technical function of 911' section?
  • fixed ESN expansion

-- John (not registered) 20:30, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

ANI/ALI - These terms are used interchangeably but only ALI is defined - incorrectly. From a 911 point of view these are treated as one service called ANI/ALI (Automatic Number Identification/Automatic Location Identification). The article uses the terms where it's more appropriate to use the other term or both. There's a page on ALI which could be linked to, but an ANI/ALI section on this page would make sense (allowing for the Wireline section to be tidied up). -- Leonstr 12:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Street Naming

I would like to see something on the requirement that municipalities give every building a street number, which in turn required them to name previously unnamed streets in order to comply with E-911 requirements. All at once across the country during the late 1990s, shared driveways were given often-whimsical names by their residents. Historic roads were renamed to reduce confusion as well. --Editing 17:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)