Re: [Ecrit] Use of SIPPING config framework for configuring location

["Elwell, John" <john.elwell at siemens-enterprise.com>]

Marc, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Linsner [mailto:mlinsner at cisco.com] 
> Sent: 02 April 2009 13:51
> To: Elwell, John; ecrit at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Use of SIPPING config framework for 
> configuring location
> 
> John,
> 
> 1) You probably should propose this idea to GeoPriv.  
> Regardless of impact
> to ECRIT Framework and PhoneBCP, GeoPriv should vet the 
> privacy and security
> impact.
[JRE] Thanks. Done.

> 
> 2) I'm curious what you believe would be the relationship 
> between SIP and
> the access network such that SIP would even know how/where to 
> determine the
> UA location information?  SIP by itself has no idea of 
> geographic location,
> nor visibility to the layers that do know.
[JRE] I know in some proprietary enterprise solutions the configuration
server has access to location information, e.g., from LAN switches. I
guess in that case the configuration server could behave as a LIS.

John


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Marc-
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/2/09 2:07 AM, "Elwell, John" <john.elwell at siemens-enterprise.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > We had a SIPPING WG ad hoc meeting during IETF 74, in which the SIP
> > Forum UA-config work was presented. It aims to provide a 
> simple profile
> > of the SIPPING configuration framework and datasets.
> > 
> > The question arose whether the configuration data obtained 
> from the SIP
> > configuration server should have the possibility to contain the
> > geographic location of the SIP UA. Effectively this would make it
> > another LCP. Does this sound reasonable? Can this be done 
> without impact
> > on the ECRIT framework and Phone BCP?
> > 
> > John
> > 
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