Re: draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-05.txt

Hi,

The thinking that we have reviewed before about this
draft is that a system generating HTML for the user
might insert location information and there is no
provision for consulting the user's privacy preferences
that could prevent this automatic circumstance.

Therefore this draft and the http one are under the
purview of the geopriv charter, explicitly stated in
the charter.

That said, we have not been putting in cycles (we chairs of
the geopriv WG) and this is something that needs remedying
soon, lest the deferral be endless :(

Allison (Co-chair, and not a Gentleman).

>
> Gentlemen,
>
> this draft is just about additional meta tags in the HTML protocol. It is
> about
> optional, additional meta information of an HTML document and therefor
> we belief it is under the responsibility of an HTML author wether or not to
> give this additional strucutured information to a document. It does not
> generate any privacy issues, because an HTML author is free to publish
> whatever he wants in a document.
>
> The idea is to make it easier for search engines to find a document that
> fits into the geographic search area of the searchers given filter.
>
> It is an easy sollution to an old problem in geographic based internet
> searching and should not become a matter of political security issues. The
> security issues in this case are "much ado about nothing".
>
>
>
> >From: Steve Coya <scoya@ietf.org>
> >To: andrew@vancouver-webpages.com, felix_kaegi@hotmail.com
> >CC: paf@cisco.com
> >Subject: draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-05.txt
> >Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:57:36 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
> >
> >
> >Gentlemen,
> >
> >The IESG believes a document on this topic especially has to address
> >privacy issues, and these issues are not addressed sufficiently in
> >this version of the document.
> >
> >The Applications Area is working on developing a working group charter
> >based
> >on geographic information and privacy, and request that the Daviel draft be
> >deferred from publication until that working group comes about and can work
> >with the drafts.
> >
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
>
Received on Tue Feb 5 18:31:07 2002