I think a better name for beacon would be "reference point", which is common when talking about reference based location systems. IP is just another reference point type.
-----Original Message----- From: standards-boun...@xmpp.org [mailto:standards-boun...@xmpp.org] On Behalf Of Helge Timenes Sent: 02/04/2009 11:25 AM To: XMPP Standards Subject: Re: [Standards] XEP-0255: Location Query I'm still thinking about this one. Granted ip address is useful in determining location, and adding a new beacon type is a painless update. But i feel it is a bit silly to call it a 'beacon'. Cell towers, wifi access points and bluetooth devices are all radio transmitters, so in a very true sense radio frequency beacons. IP address? Not so much... Add a new beacon type, or de-generalize <beacon> into <cell>,<wifi>, <bluetooth>, <ip> ? The latter seems more correct, but is of course a backwards compatibility breaking change. Do any one have an opinion or preference? -original message- Subject: Re: [Standards] XEP-0255: Location Query From: "Stephen Pendleton" <pendl...@movsoftware.com> Date: 04/02/2009 16:49 Also, can you add "ip" as one of the beacon types in Table 2? That would cover one of the use cases. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: standards-boun...@xmpp.org [mailto:standards-boun...@xmpp.org] On Behalf Of Helge Timenes Sent: 02/03/2009 6:55 AM To: XMPP Standards Subject: Re: [Standards] XEP-0255: Location Query Thanks. Will fix ;-) Regards, Helge Timenes -original message- Subject: [Standards] XEP-0255: Location Query From: Daniel Willmann <dan...@totalueberwachung.de> Date: 03/02/2009 11:24 Hi, I just noticed an inconsistency between the query tags at http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0255.html#examples and the format specification at http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0255.html#format. Example 1 uses tags named latitude and longitude, but the format specifies them as lat and lon. Since XEP-80 also uses lat and lon I'm guessing that the example is wrong, but still better not to confuse people. :-) Regards, Daniel Willmann <<signature.asc>>
