RFC 3693 (rfc3693) - Page 2 of 30

Geopriv Requirements

RFC 3693                  Geopriv Requirements             February 2004


Table of Contents

   1.  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Conventions Used in this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   4.  Primary Geopriv Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   5.  Further Geopriv Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.1.  Location Information and Sighting. . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.2.  The Location Object and Using Protocol . . . . . . . . .  9
       5.3.  Trusted vs. Non-trusted Data Flows . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       5.4.  Further Geopriv Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       5.5.  Privacy Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       5.6.  Identifiers, Authentication and Authorization. . . . . . 13
   6.  Scenarios and Explanatory Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       7.1.  Location Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       7.2.  The Using Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
       7.3.  Rule based Location Data Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
       7.4.  Location Object Privacy and Security . . . . . . . . . . 22
             7.4.1.  Identity Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
             7.4.2.  Authentication Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . 23
             7.4.3.  Actions to be secured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
       7.5.  Non-Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   8.  Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       8.1.  Traffic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       8.2.  Securing the Privacy Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       8.3.  Emergency Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
       8.4.  Identities and Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
       8.5.  Unintended Target. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
   9.  Protocol and LO Issues for later Consideration . . . . . . . . 26
       9.1.  Multiple Locations in one LO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
       9.2.  Translation Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
       9.3.  Truth Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       9.4.  Timing Information Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       9.5.  The Name Space of Identifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
       11.1. Normative Reference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
       11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   12. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   13. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30










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