On Mar 21, 2010, at 12:12 , Richard Barnes wrote:
> Someone pointed out that Tuesday lunch conflicts with the ISOC IPv6 meeting. Any major issues with Tuesday breakfast?
>
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> On Mar 21, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
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>> Wednesday lunch is looking worse and worse. How would people feel about Tuesday lunch? If I don't hear any objections by, say, early this afternoon, I'll go ahead and make the change.
>> --Richard
>>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
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>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> This email is announcing a Bar BoF at the upcoming IETF meeting on the topic of "location coherence", to be held somewhere in the vicinity of the GEOPRIV meeting, probably during the lunch break on Wednesday, 24 March. Since the topic is a little peripheral to GEOPRIV, I've also set up a Google Group for discussions here:
>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/geo-loco>
>>>
>>> What I mean by "coherence" is this:
>>>
>>> In order for location-based Internet applications to work, there are several pieces that need to work together, including
>>> -- Positioning sevices
>>> -- Location protocols
>>> -- Location APIs-- Application protocols that use location
>>> Right now, there are many different implementations out there for each layer in this stack, each with its own set of semantics for location related concepts -- not just the location that can be expressed (e.g., lat/long/accuracy vs. polygons), but also ancillary ideas like types of location (civic vs geodetic) and supporting information like signal measurements.
>>>
>>> In the spirit of allowing different organizations to add value at different levels of this stack, while still maintaining interoperability, it would seem like a good idea to have a coherent set of semantics for location concepts -- a common data model, if not common protocols and APIs.
>>>
>>> Topics for discussion could include:
>>> -- How can we map out the space of things that exist today?
>>> -- What sorts of location systems would this effort try to encompass? Protocols and/or APIs? Positioning and/or conveyance?
>>> -- What's the proper venue for this work? GEOPRIV? A new IETF WG? Somewhere else?
>>>
>>> As an example of the sort of thing that might come out of this work, a colleague and I put together a partial draft looking at mappings between different location protocols:
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-doran-geopriv-proto-map-01>
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking the time to read through this, and I look forward to some useful discussions next week.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> --Richard
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