Joe Hildebrand wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Helge Timenes wrote:
BTW, did we not add the "ethernet" type yet?
I added the IP type, but not yet ethernet. Would that indeed be the
right type name? As I understood Joe it would be the MAC address of
a Network Interface Card (NIC), so maybe "ethernet" would be a bit
vague?
I agree that "mac" is more general-purpose.
Well "mac" is maybe also too general? The most important job of the
"type" attribute is to give the server an indication of the localization
characteristics of a reference. Wifi access points and bluetooth devices
are also identified by their mac address, but have completely different
location characteristics (range, typical degree of mobility etc) from
both each other and a network interface card.
Would "nic" be appropriate? In any case a bit of prose would be needed
to explain its usage
Do we then have to worry about EUI-64 addresses as well? Would we
expect this to include your Bluetooth or ZigBee address as well?
Bluetooth is already a specified reference type. Without knowing ZigBee
particularly well I'd assume that there are enough differences from
other wireless protocols that a location server would be interested in
knowing it, and treat such a reference "accordingly" when processing a
location query.
The important thing is that references that should be treated specially
by the location server needs a dedicated "type".
Helge
