Fabio Forno wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was chatting with Joe Hildebrand about XEP-0255 and he mentioned that
> 
> [...]
>> It seems that we'd need this because your ethernet address might be
>> different from your wifi address even in the same location (e.g., where
>> I am right now my ethernet address is 00:23:32:d4:28:ea whereas my wifi
>> address is 00:23:6c:88:d4:1d).
>>
> 
> Uhm.. is that meaningful? Usually for location queries external
> references are more useful than your address (e.g. your MAC moves with
> your notebook, so what is the purpose of doing a query with it?)

I meant your locally-assigned IPv4 or IPv6 address, not your MAC
address. My bad.

> Besides that there is one more reference we are starting using: RFID
> addresses, which allow to pinpoint the exact position of the device.

Yes, that too would be useful.

Peter

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