Re: Action 10 - What Is A POI? - "Place-Oriented Information"?

I've worked for a number of years in the IETF ECRIT and GEOPRIV working group, which have defined a range of location-based protocols. Current use is primarily in emergency communication (NG911). See RFC 5222 et al. Thus, my "bias" tends to be large-scale, long-lived systems that need to interoperate reliably.

Henning

On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Rob Manson wrote:

> Hi Henning,
> 
> sounds like we definitely have a context mismatch 8(
> 
> I think Gary's summary[1] (which was really the basis for this whole
> thread and my response to Dan) laid out the distinctions quite well.
> Although as "Director, Ovi Places Registry" he's obviously coming from a
> loaded context 8)
> 
> Out of interest...what kind of cultural context are you grounded in?
> 
> My background is Augmented Reality and Pervasive Computing which has
> shaped my views on Space, Place and Location.
> 
> 
> roBman
> 
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-poiwg/2010Nov/0044.html
> 

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