>>> 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.
I think the intent was to pass in WiFi beacons (or MAC addresses of visible access points) rather than the assigned IP. That said, HELD (part of the IETF GeoPriv effort) attempts to provide mechanisms to determine location from IP: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-12 seth
