REGULATORY & POLICY:

The IPIC Regulatory and Policy Working Group charter is to focus on regulatory and policy issues associated with E911 and how IP Communications impacts those issues.  This team will address
topics such as privacy, challenges/opportunities for public safety
supporting the disabled community, impacts and interaction with CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act), company liability and liability protection, government funding initiatives for IP
Communications as it relates to both the operators and public safety,
and the roles and jurisdiction of local, state, and federal agencies.  This Subcommittee is also more likely to offer suggestions and
recommendations to the Institute’s target audience regarding the policy
and regulatory topics that it addresses
 

IPIC Policy - Working Group Members:

Chairperson:  Dick Dickinson
                         TCS
                         ddickinson@seattle.telecomsys.com

                         206.792.2224
 

IPIC OPERATIONS/BUSINESS:

The Operations/Business Working Group (IPIC Ops) charter is to
focus on operational issues associated with E911 and how IP Communications impacts those operational issues.  This team will
address topics such as Best Practices, funding methods, operational
issues surrounding E911 infrastructure and interconnections between IP communications entities (e.g., VoIP Service Provider,
IP-backbone/transport companies, Local Exchange Carriers, Public
Safety Answering Points, Internet Service Providers, First Responders,
etc.).  Lessons learned from wireline and wireless deployments and implementations will be addressed.  This Subcommittee is more likely to offer suggestions and recommendations to the Institute’s target audience regarding the proper roles that various entities should play, how they
should be organized, how they might be funded, and how these various functions might interact with various local, state, and federal
governmental agencies.

IPIC Ops - Working Group Members:
 

Chairperson:  Elaine Sexton,
                         Georgia Emergency Management Agency
                         Email:  esexton@gema.state.ga.us

                         404.309.9401
 

IPIC TECHNICAL:

The IPIC Techical Working Group charter is to focus on educating the Institute’s target audience about the technical issues surrounding the
impact of implementing E911 for IP-based communications.  The topics
will address providing E911 for VoIP (i.e., the basic expectations) as well
as how future IP-based communications technology might enhance our public safety infrastructure.  This subcommittee’s efforts are expected to
be a compilation of information, making it easier for Institute members
and the Institute’s target audience to understand the IP communications technology, the challenges, the opportunities, and the various options available to address E911.  The focus will be more on education than on standards or recommended implementations, though the latter topics will
be addressed (primarily through referral to the efforts of other Fora).

IPIC Tech - Working Group Members:

Chairperson:  Roger Hixson
                         Email:  rhixson@nena.org

                         [Telephone]