> I was asking about other docs because the conception of what a LIS is
> has to come from somewhere, and I wanted to know what comes to
> people's minds when they think of it. Deref was useful in that respect.
To me a LIS is any server that provides location information, and more specifically one that implements HELD.
That is irrespective of whether the input query is a Location URI (which needs dereferencing) or a parameterized HELD request containing the various extensions.
> On the LIS point, a simple way to solve this could be to define LIS as
> follows (unless there's another document out there that directly
> contradicts this definition), in 3.2.3 of geopriv-arch:
>
> "A LIS provides location URIs to LRs."
>
> And then the discussion of the LIS in 3.2.2 could be taken out.
>
> This doesn't address the issue of dereferencing, but does it get the
> job done on defining a LIS?
This seems somewhat better, yes.
kind regards,
Ray
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