Re: [Geopriv] draft-ietf-geopriv-uncertainty-00

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 17 April 2014 18:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Geopriv] draft-ietf-geopriv-uncertainty-00
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On 17 April 2014 11:00, Marc Linsner (mlinsner) <mlinsner@cisco.com> wrote:
> But I¹m the entity sending the PIDF-LO, hence I¹m the entity declaring the
> uncertainty value.  You don¹t get a vote!

It doesn't work that way.  You don't get to validate your own claims.
If it worked that way, confidence would be 100%.

The only way you get that is if you include a fiat declaration that
your current location is X.  But that would require that X is a new
definition, not a widely accepted civic address.  e.g., I'm in Narnia.
 Where's that?  Where I am, of course.