RE: [Geopriv] call for consensus on postal address issue for dhcp -civil

There is a clear and immediate need to be able to differentiate the postal
community from the civic community, at least in meeting the needs of North
American emergency services.

The first proposal appears to meet the immediate identified need.
However, I have no objection to using either of the other two approaches, if
that is the consensus of the group.

Nadine Abbott

-----Original Message-----
From: geopriv-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:geopriv-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Andrew Newton
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:54 PM
To: GEOPRIV WG
Subject: [Geopriv] call for consensus on postal address issue for dhcp-civil

All,

Our AD notes that the matter of the type of postal address for
draft-ietf-geopriv-dhcp-civil, received during IETF-wide last call, is
a substantive technical change and has requested a consensus opinion
regarding the matter from this working group.

There appear to be no objections to making a distinction between legal
and postal addresses, but there isn't a clear consensus on how to
approach the problem (if I have overlooked an overall objection for
this distinction, please say so). Henning sent out a list of 3
possible approaches. I've quoted #1 and #3 (nobody seemed to want #2).

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(1) Assume that only the community name differs between jurisdictional
and postal addresses (and deal with odd street situations by LMK
indication) and add a postal community name. Given that the emergency
services community has found this sufficient in four versions of
systems designed since the 1970s, there is some indication that this is
"good enough".

(3) Add an enclosing label that groups all postal or jurisdictional
fields, as in

[postal A1, A2, ...}
[jurisdictional A1, A2, ...}

where the [postal ...] indication would be a TLV that indicates the
total length of all subtended TLVs.

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Which do you prefer, #1 or #3? Please respond no later than Feb. 8
(two weeks from today).

-andy

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