Re: person location

If you are going to move into the person location discussion, then the group 
must consider the internet standards already in place and implemented by the 
internet infrastructure community. These standards are also being adopted 
for use in the Next Generation 9-1-1 system in the US. NENA is the 
coordinating group for all best practice and standards policy related to NG 
9-1-1

Check out www.ietf.org and look in ENUM, ECRIT, SIP, and GeoPriv Working 
Groups. GeoPriv is the core of this work. Also, the IETF coordinate with the 
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in this particular topic area (location of the 
device/person).

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
To: "public-xg-eiif" <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:13 AM
Subject: person location


>
> Person location is critical in delivering emergency
> While the person ID/ age/ gender are all important, knowing their
> exact/approximate (and indicative degree of approximation of) location
> is an important piece of data for a number of reasons that I am sure I
> dont have to discuss :-)
>
> We need to consider that mobile phones nowadays can automatically give
> position, and our schema should be able to capture that information
> that otherwise would be lost/not usable
>
> Location/Cell Based Services are already being designed/ implemented
> that automatically capture distress signals and broadcast it to the
> nearest stations,
> It's about future proofing our work, I think
>
>
> -- 
> Paola Di Maio
> School of IT
> www.mfu.ac.th
> *********************************************
>

Received on Thursday, 4 September 2008 16:22:28 UTC