Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Re: [Geopriv] New Version Notification fordraft-thomson-geopriv-lying-00.txt

On 2011-06-30 at 11:31:43, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> Some thoughts:
>
> Is this necessarily about "lying"? The ability to manually override
> automatically generated location is a frequently suggested feature.
> There can be a number of reasons why a LIS might not be able to
> determine the user's location (e.g. out of the area covered by the
> LIS, on a VPN), or might get it wrong (bad wiremap data). If your LIS
> tells you you're in Peoria and you're in Timbuktu instead, manual
> override seems like a good idea.

True. I hadn't really considered that use case.

> Of course, it's also a privacy feature.
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