Re: to clarify the requirements on the location protocol?

["EXT C. Wegrzyn" <wegrzyn@garbagedump.com>]

It seems pretty quiet on the list right now so I'll add my two cents to
this. I believe that we should provide location information at the lowest
layers of the protocol stack - at the ICMP layer. In this way into would be
relatively "low cost" to get the information. Secondly, the encoding of the
data should take the format of ASN.1 with one of the standard encoding
schemes. Thirdly, we should provide an extensible set of information in the
location, mandating that at least the longitude/latitude be given, if so
enabled at the machine. Finally, "additional" location can be included in
the packet, if so allowed by the site, and the information be identified in
a supplemental document.

FWIW,
Chuck Wegrzyn

----- Original Message -----
From: Tang Haitao (NRC/Helsinki) <haitao.tang@nokia.com>
To: <ext-ip-location@research.nokia.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 10:20 AM
Subject: to clarify the requirements on the location protocol?


> Hello:
>
> There have been some discussions on where/why a spatial location
> protocol (called as IPSLP, LIP, ISLP, ...) should/should not be
> considered.
>
> It looks that more people in the discussions like the idea of
> adding the capability onto the network. It enables the location
> servers to interface with various link layer location data
> sources and to exchange location data over the network.
> However, the specific requirements and their related details for
> the capability have not been much discussed yet.
>
> Could we investigate the specific requirements on various aspects
> of the spatial location protocol? Some of the items needed
> to be clarified are (please also give yours or comment on):
>
> 1. requirements on the l-2 interfacing stuffs
>
>   - data format (had some discussions)
>   - the inter-operable access protocol with various l-2 location
>     data sources
>   - possible binding operations between l-2 and the Internet
>   - security/privacy/anonymity levels and approaches
>   - contract/policy based operations
>
> 2. requirements on the stuffs of location data exchanging over the
> Internet
>
>   - data format (had some discussions)
>   - the location data propagation/exchanging protocol among the
>     servers and clients/targets
>   - cross-domain operations
>   - contract/policy based operations
>   - security/privacy/anonymity levels and approaches
>   - resolving between spatial location and IP/other identifiers
>
> In addition, any comments on Eric's "Layers of location information"
> (http://www-nrc.nokia.com/mail-archive/ext-ip-location/msg00109.html)?
>
> Haitao
>