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Re: [Geopriv] Some comments on draft-thomson-geopriv-uncertainty-08

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 08 November 2013 17:47 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Some comments on draft-thomson-geopriv-uncertainty-08
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On 8 November 2013 09:33, Brian Rosen <br@brianrosen.net> wrote:
> I think E2 and MLP report position AND they report uncertainty by describing
> the position as a point, and the uncertainty as the radius of a circle or
> ellipse.

That's not the case.

Wikipedia has the DTDs, which show that it's functionally identical to
what is in RFC 5491.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Location_Protocol

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