[VoiceOps] RAY BAUMS Act - How are people planning on

[Pawlowski, Adam]

There's a 140+ page document from the FCC on how they plan to interpret and enforce Ray Baum's and Kari's Law which discusses a lot of this. 

IIRC, and, not being a lawyer, it said that it wouldn't bother with the stickers due to the burden. It also made a point that if the phone were capable of placing a call, that it should be expected that the device can call 911. To me that says an E911 disclaimer is not sufficient to prevent a 911 call from being routed to a national centre or some other PSAP, but, I don't really know. There was not a point there that said, "If you can comply with this now, you must make changes" that I saw clearly. There are those that say systems must do these things and those which changed substansively past a point or which require money to be spent to implement need to .

More or less it is pretty hazy but I did get out of it that if my softphone client has a 9 and a 1 on it that pressing the right combination of those should do something. Perhaps we can go back to rotary phones where we can put the lock on the 9.

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> At some point, some ruling body had said those stickers were non-compliant
> and meaningless.  So I think the assumption is that they still see it that way.  I
> think it was the FCC, but not sure.  I think to them if it's on a desk and is shaped
> like a phone, it better work properly for 911.
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