Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Pedro Melo wrote: I don't see the usefulness of sending my own mac address. But sending the mac address of my default gateway, then yes, I find that very useful. That's how a lot of location aware-tools for the Mac work for example. It's just another source

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-05 Thread Pedro Melo
On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I was chatting with Joe Hildebrand about XEP-0255 and he mentioned that it would be good to add a reference type for an Ethernet address, such as: iq from='ham...@shakespeare.lit/phone' id='q02' to='location.shakespear.lit'

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-04 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Helge Timenes wrote: Joe Hildebrand wrote: On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Helge Timenes wrote: Actually, I meant the local ethernet (MAC) address of your active network connection(s). There are network elements that keep track of the ethernet addresses they

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-03 Thread Helge Timenes
Fabio Forno wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I meant your locally-assigned IPv4 or IPv6 address, not your MAC address. My bad. Penitenziagite! :D Yep, now I get the point and it makes sense Sorry for being a bit late responding to

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-03 Thread Helge Timenes
Joe Hildebrand wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: 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

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-03 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Helge Timenes wrote: Actually, I meant the local ethernet (MAC) address of your active network connection(s). There are network elements that keep track of the ethernet addresses they have seen, and can glean location information from that connectivity

[Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
I was chatting with Joe Hildebrand about XEP-0255 and he mentioned that it would be good to add a reference type for an Ethernet address, such as: iq from='ham...@shakespeare.lit/phone' id='q02' to='location.shakespear.lit' type='get' xml:lang='en-US' locationquery

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Monitzer
On Mar 02, 2009, at 20:23, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I was chatting with Joe Hildebrand about XEP-0255 and he mentioned that it would be good to add a reference type for an Ethernet address, such as: It seems that we'd need this because your ethernet address might be different from your

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-02 Thread Fabio Forno
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I was chatting with Joe Hildebrand about XEP-0255 and he mentioned that [...] 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

Re: [Standards] XEP-0255 (Location Query): ethernet reference type?

2009-03-02 Thread Fabio Forno
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I meant your locally-assigned IPv4 or IPv6 address, not your MAC address. My bad. Penitenziagite! :D Yep, now I get the point and it makes sense Besides that there is one more reference we are starting using: RFID