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

["Brian Rosen" <br at brianrosen.net>]

I think you could configure location if you were really sure you knew what
the location was.  That, in general, is difficult, but possible in
enterprise.  It means that the the config server has to be able to figure
out where the phone is plugged into the Ethernet infrastructure/WiFi/...
Often a tough thing to get into the SIP configuration server.  I do think
that providing a local LIS is not a bad idea, although again, if, say, the
phone was in a home office you DO NOT want to tell it that the LIS it should
use is in HQ.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: ecrit-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Elwell, John
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:15 PM
To: Marc Linsner; ecrit at ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Use of SIPPING config framework for configuring
location

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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