Missed this one due to a mis-behaving spamfilter...
Will add to spec and update the next few days.
- helge -
On Mar 21, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Helge Timenes wrote:
/ I agree that "mac" is more general-purpose.
/>/ Well "mac" is maybe also too general?
/
Agree. Either "nic" or "ethernet" are fine with me.
/ Would "nic" be appropriate? In any case a bit of prose would be
/>/ needed to explain its usage
/
That's fine. How about:
The "nic" type is an indication to the location server of the link
layer (Media Access Control) address of one of the Network Interface
Controllers (NICs) associated with the client sending the request.
Most commonly, this will take the form of a 48-bit ethernet address
formatted in six colon-separated groups of two hexadecimal digits, in
transmission order. Some location servers may be able to use this
information to query network elements through which the client is
connected in order to deduce location data.
--
Joe Hildebrand
