Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Re: [Geopriv] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-ietf-geopriv-arch-00.txt


> >* Location configuration is called out explicitly. LIS is defined as a
> >special case of LG that only provides a Target with its own location.
>
> err, this is yet another definition change in the grand scheme of Geopriv...
>
> so, a LIS is an LCP server, and what is the destination of
> subscriptions for dereferences - but only by the target itself, not
> dereferences by other entities?

I'm not happy with this either.

What are the motives for this change?  It seems to me that generically a "LIS" is widely taken to mean anything that implements HELD (or similar?) regardless of who is requesting the location and to restrict the terminology now seems rather odd.

Ray

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