[Hipsec-rg] discussion of draft-cao-hip-geolocation-01

[thomas.r.henderson at boeing.com (Henderson, Thomas R)]

All,
As we discussed in Minneapolis, the authors of draft-cao-hip-geolocation
(Delivering Geographic Location in HIP) have asked both for feedback
from the RG on their proposal and for whether the RG is interested in
taking the draft as a RG work item.  The draft is located at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cao-hip-geolocation-01

There was a good bit of discussion at the meeting, summarized in the
meeting minutes:
https://listserv.cybertrust.com/pipermail/hipsec-rg/2008-December/000538
.html

To summarize, the draft proposes that HIP provide a service that carries
geolocation information between hosts.  In the RG meeting, there was
some support expressed for the basic concept.  There were also some
concerns expressed about privacy, about whether HIP is the right layer
to provide this information, and about defining the use cases in more
detail.

Please comment or ask questions about the technical details, and comment
on whether you think the RG should adopt this work item (by adopting it,
it would mean that more people than the initial authors would need to
get involved in progressing it further).

- Tom

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interested parties can subscribe and discuss here (to avoid
cross-posting).