the 'device' vs 'target' terminology from
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3693.txt is confusing for me, see:
Target:
The entity whose location is desired by the Location Recipient.
In many cases the Target will be the human "user" of a Device
or an object such as a vehicle or shipping container to which
the Device is attached. In some instances the Target will be
the Device itself.
Device:
The technical device whereby the location is tracked as a proxy
for the location of a Target.
In http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-geopriv-arch-00.txt we talk about
the Target but the device terminology is gone:
Target: An individual or other entity whose location is sought in
the Geopriv architecture. The Target is the entity whose privacy
Geopriv seeks to protect.
[Btw, I only refer to entity instead of individual as in our protocol
mechanisms there are no 'humans' as such only identifiers.]
The problem is that we use the term 'device' in our documents. Examples:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-15
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-winterbottom-geopriv-held-identity-extens
ions-09.txt
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sipcore-location-conveyance-01
(Actually, we sometimes use Target and sometimes Device.)
The differentiation between Target and Device only makes sense if there
is a clear difference between the two.
My question: Should we stick with the terminology used in
draft-ietf-geopriv-arch-00.txt and not use device anymore? This would
require us to run a find/replace action over a few of our documents.
Ciao
Hannes
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