Re: What makes a 'position' usefull?

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From: James M. Polk
To: Randy Bush ; Dante Castiglione
Cc: geopriv@mail.apps.ietf.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: What makes a 'position' usefull?

>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.

I understand your point. But after you know the location of an entity,
figuring out how to get there might just be a case of pressing a button that
sends two pairs of coordinates to some anonymous navigation system (e.g.
mapquest)

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Received on Tue Jul 24 14:37:37 2001