Re: Scope of GeoPriv

At 9:16 AM +0000 11/16/01, Nicholas Wood wrote:

>I have been looking over the latest documents, and I was just wondering
>about the scope and purpose of this group in relation to other similar
>initiatives. For example, the WAP forum has published a set of generic
>specifications for requesting and transporting location information (WAP
>256, 257 and 258, see http://www.wapforum.org/what/review.htm), the W3C has
>published the P3P specification for generic privacy policies
>(http://www.w3.org/P3P/) and so on.

I don't think we're interested in reinventing wheels, but we are
focused on security and privacy. A generic mechanism for requesting
and transporting location information, without regard to security or
privacy, isn't appropriate for what we need. Unlike some generic
privacy mechanisms, we need to make sure that we have a way to
request and transport location information in a way that complies
with the user's policy in respect to security and privacy.
Received on Wed Nov 28 10:51:32 2001