Re: What makes a 'position' usefull?

At 11:45 PM 7/23/2001 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Should there exist a standard way for a device to query a server requesting
>> maps and/or data and/or driving directions for an area?
>
>possibly. but it's not in the charter of this wg. how about working on the
>cake before looking at the 10,000 flavors of icing?
>
>randy

Unless I'm mistaken, this charter does cover it. In the near future when a user
subscribes to a location service that provides location of other devices via
this (then) new GEOPRIV Protocol, they (a client) can ask to get the location
of any device (a server) they are authorized to request the location of,
including one's self (or an IP device close to one's self like a pager or cell
phone), thereby providing to one's self where they specifically are (depending
on the granularity/accuracy of this service). Regardless if this is one process
interacting directly with another process within the same physical device, or
outwards through a Proxy or Location Server.

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Received on Tue Jul 24 14:22:21 2001