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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

*Question*

If the "sms" runs and is facilitated across the IP Core (such as NGNs) does
this qualify it to be part of the internet?

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

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> 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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