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Re: [Geopriv] Progressing the draft draft-thomson-geopriv-confidence-03

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 31 July 2013 12:45 UTC

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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:45:00 +0200
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On 31 July 2013 14:38, Brian Rosen <br@brianrosen.net> wrote:
> The only reason to have confidence at less than 95% is to make uncertainty
> appear smaller.  It's marketing.

That's just not true.  Unless you are the entity performing location
determination, it is impossible to increase confidence in location.
And in the systems that the folks on this list are talking about rely
on location determination that does not produce 95% confidence.  This
is an interoperability issue.

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