From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:15:39 -0400 Subject: [Geopriv] Protocol Action: 'A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format ' as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Geographic Location/Privacy Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck. Technical Summary This document describes a privacy-sensitive object format for carrying geographical information on the Internet. This location object extends the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF), which was designed for communicating privacy-sensitive presence information and which has similar properties. Descriptions of how this object format will be handled by specific using protocols will be in documents specific to each protocol. Working Group Summary The working group came to consensus both on the needed privacy properties and on the use of PIDF-based syntax as a base for this object. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie. RFC-Editor note: References section: OLD (Informative References): [18] Ramsdell, B., "Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Certificate Handling", RFC 3850, July 2004. NEW (Normative References): [10] Ramsdell, B., "Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Certificate Handling", RFC 3850, July 2004. Please renumber the citations in Normative and Informative as appropriate.