Re: Location Requirements - tracking

At 07:39 AM 7/17/2002 -0400, Rosen, Brian wrote:
>I would appreciate seeing a requirement that the object support
>tracking. This has several implications:
> 1. The object may have to have a particularly small form
> tracking is often used on a small device
> 2. We may want to specify a delta format in addition to an
> absolute
> 3. The "geopriv protocol" needs to be at most a single packet
> exchange. The first transaction in a tracking application
> could be more than this, but we need a low overhead
> mechanism for incremental updates

I don't like this idea. It should be up to the Location Service or the
Location Seeker to calculate or determine if a subsequent Location request
is desired and then do whatever it wants with that information - be that
tracking or some other use.

In other words, the burden shouldn't be on the Target to determine a delta
- a vector and velocity perhaps as optional additional info - but not a
delta (that I can see in version 1 of this Protocol at least)

>
>Brian

cheers,
James

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Received on Wed Jul 17 20:11:59 2002