[governance] Request for Information [ICT4 health/ E Health]

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<75822E125BCB994F8446858C4B19F0D71750B1B911 at SUEX07-MBX-04.ad.syr.edu>, 
at 16:26:51 on Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> 
writes
>SMS is not Internet protocol. Just so there's no confusion.

Sure, but you would have the same issue if you decided to use Twitter or 
Skype to dispatch your ambulances.

(I'm not saying any of these claim to be suitable for the application in 
question, but you'd be surprised how people make assumptions).

And I'd expect most institutionalised SMS sending to be initiated "over 
the Internet" before it hits the mobile networks at an SMS message 
centre, so IP creeps into solutions like this almost inevitably.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:00 PKT Roland Perry wrote:
>>
>> >In message
>> >I remember many years ago talking to health authorities who wanted to
>> use mobile phone SMS to tell where ambulances where to go (they call
>> this activity "dispatching"). They became justifiably concerned when
>> they couldn't find any QoS guarantees from the mobile phone operators
>> about when those SMS might be delivered (you'd need "within a few
>> seconds", probably; "within 4hrs" won't be much use).
>> >-- Roland Perry
>[Milton L Mueller]
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