[its] Fwd: draft-karagiannis-problem-statement-geonetworking-00

[Carl Reed <[e-mail]>]

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Georgios -

Thank you for the quick response. I would be happy to work together as part of this activity.

Best regards

Carl


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Dear Carl,

Thank you very much for the information! 
It will be great if we could work together in this new IETF activity!

Best regards,
Georgios



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Reed [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: woensdag 25 september 2013 15:10
> To: Karagiannis, G. (EWI)
> Cc: Carsten Roensdorf; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail];
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> Subject: draft-karagiannis-problem-statement-geonetworking-00
> 
> 
> I am the CTO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Director of the
> OGC standards program. Since 2002, I have also been collaborating with the
> GeoPriv Working Group. That WG has defined a location object for encoding
> and transporting geodetic (coordinate) and civic (such as an address) in
> internet standards. (http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/geopriv/). An early work
> activity was to define a location element for use with DHCP. This worked
> resulted in an official RFC:
> 
> [RFC 3825] Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Option for Coordinate-based
> Location Configuration Information.
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3825/?include_text=1
> 
> The location element defined in this RFC is consistent with the modeling and
> encoding of location content as defined and documented in ISO and OGC
> standards. This includes expression of a coordinate reference system (CRS)
> and the encoding of the point location. Further, GeoPriv members have
> written and tested a tool that converts the binary location encoding into the
> OGC/ISO Geography Markup Language (GML).
> 
> GML is widely used and GML support is available from nearly all GIS and
> geospatial technology providers. There is also a GML Application Schema
> defined by the GeoPriv community for encoding the geodetic Location
> Object.
> 
> I would hope that the participants in this new IETF activity will consider
> previous community best practice and attempt to remain harmonized with
> existing IETF and related standards community activity in the geospatial
> domain.
> 
> Please also note that the existing location encodings developed in the
> GeoPriv WG are consistent with the implementing rules defined as part of
> the European INSPIRE initiative as well as the ongoing Next Generation 911
> (NENA) specifications, such as which standards to use in the new i3
> architecture.
> 
> If you have any questions, please let me know.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Carl Reed, PhD
> CTO and Executive Director Standards Program Open Geospatial Consortium
> www.opengeospatial.org
> 
> The OGC: Making Location Count!
> 
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