Re: RE: [Geopriv] Location header name collides with HTTP
"Jeroen van Bemmel" <[email protected]>
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Suggestion: "Location-Object" Jeroen > James is on vacation, so I want to wait until he returns but I agree with > you. Would "Geolocation" be acceptable? It does sometimes make you think > we > only mean lat/lon, instead of also allowing street address, but it's > technically accurate. > > Brian >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Henning Schulzrinne [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:19 AM >> To: SIP working group; GEOPRIV working group >> Subject: [Geopriv] Location header name collides with HTTP >> >> Just to throw another curveball: >> >> I don't know why nobody has noticed this before, but the definition of >> Location in draft-ietf-sip-location-conveyance-03 directly conflicts >> with the HTTP usage of the same header name (section 14.30 of RFC 2616). >> >> While the two name spaces are nominally different, I think it is a >> fundamentally bad idea to collide with the HTTP name space and re-use >> the same header name for dramatically different content. (Among other >> reasons, we might want to use the same (geo/civic) location mechanism in >> RTSP or even HTTP later, and it would be really confusing to have >> different names in each protocol.) >> >> Since there's no shortage of English words, this should be changed. >> >> By the way, we had this discussion early on in SIP, yielding the Contact >> header (instead of, as it happens, Location, although the concepts were >> much closer). >> >> For some reason, HTTP seems to have survived without disallowing the >> "fax" URI scheme... >> >> Henning >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geopriv mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/geopriv > > > _______________________________________________ > Sip mailing list https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip > This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol > Use [email protected] for questions on current sip > Use [email protected] for new developments on the application of sip _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [email protected] for questions on current sip Use [email protected] for new developments on the application of sip