Editing Emergency telephone number (section)

== Standardisation ==
=== ITU standard: 112 or 911 ===
The International Telecommunication Union has officially set two standard emergency phone numbers for countries to use in the future. AP reports that member states have agreed that either 911 or 112 should be designated as emergency phone numbers – 911 is more commonly used in the Americas, while 112 is standard across the EU and in many other countries worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3758760/itu-911-112-standard-emergency-numbers|title=911 and 112 are the world's standard emergency numbers, ITU decides|website=theverge.com|date=12 December 2012 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401183323/http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3758760/itu-911-112-standard-emergency-numbers|archive-date=2017-04-01}}</ref>

=== IP telephony ===
In January 2008, the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] released a set of [[Request for Comments|RFC documents]] pertaining to emergency calls in [[Internet Protocol|IP]] networks.<ref>{{cite journal |date=8 January 2008 |title=RFCs prepare for Internet emergency calls |url=http://blog.anta.net/2008/01/08/rfcs-prepare-for-internet-emergency-calls/ |url-status=dead |issn=1797-1993 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135406/http://blog.anta.net/2008/01/08/rfcs-prepare-for-internet-emergency-calls/ |archive-date=26 July 2011 |access-date=8 January 2008 |website=blog.anta.net}}</ref>