RFC 3693 (rfc3693) - Page 2 of 30
Geopriv Requirements
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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
Cuellar, et al. Informational