Extensions to the Emergency Services Architecture for Dealing With Unauthenticated and Unauthorized Devices

Abstract

This document provides a problem statement, introduces terminology, and describes an extension for the base IETF emergency services architecture to address cases where an emergency caller is not authenticated, has no identifiable service provider, or has no remaining credit with which to pay for access to the network.

Report from the Internet of Things Software Update (IoTSU) Workshop 2016

“…Some products are probably expected to fail safely, similarly to a smoke alarm that makes a loud noise when the battery becomes empty. Cell phones without a contract can, in some countries, still be used for emergency services (although at the expense of society due to untraceable hoax calls), as discussed in RFC 7406 [RFC7406].…”