RE: combination of location and identity

Andrew

At 02:36 AM 7/13/2001 -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Reinaldo Penno wrote:
>
>> > Some Internet Resource (HTML document) is indexed by
>> > geographic coordinates
>> > (or another representation of location). This case is considered in
>> > draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-05.txt.
>
>> I read your draft, very interesting. What we should also be aware is that if
>> I document is cached, the cache should update the geo tags.
>
>No. The geo tags refer to the content - if the page describes a lake, the
>tags give the location of the lake. Where the document is hosted or cached
>does not affect this.

And if that lake is Lake Michigan..... what coordinate does one give?

There was discussion last year in the predecessor group to this of how accurate
the reply is - and a concern came up with regards to where on a plane or ship
does the coordinate (or Dataset value) specify.... with no consensus. The
exactness of what the requester is doing with that reply is of great concern,
agreed?

>--
>Andrew Daviel
>
>

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Received on Fri Jul 13 13:50:06 2001