Thursday, July 16, 2009

Re: [Geopriv] New location payload offered

>-----Original Message-----
>From: geopriv-bounces@ietf.org
>[mailto:geopriv-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext James M. Polk
>Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:04 PM
>To: geopriv@ietf.org
>Subject: [Geopriv] New location payload offered
>
>Geopriv
>
>Several of us have updated an old idea to make it exactly
>what we intended in the first place, a TLV based location
>payload for usage by binary protocols. Here is the link:
>
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-polk-geopriv-xml-to
>-tlv-00.txt
>
>For the most part, we have taken the Geopriv Shapes doc and
>created a TLV for each element needed to form each shape. We
>didn't have the time to complete all the shapes, but you
>should be able to get the idea from what's there now.
>
>There is no transport protocol mentioned in the doc, and I
>actually don't have one in mind within the IETF.

Then why to have the document in IETF?

The binary encoding of these shapes is already done in 3GPP and widely used. That should be good enough, there is no need to define yet another binary encoding.

- gabor

>Comments are appreciated
>
>James
>
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