ECRIT R. George
Internet-Draft Q. Sun
Intended status: Informational Huawei Technologies
Expires: September 9, 2010 H. Schulzrinne
Columbia University
B. Rosen
NeuStar
March 8, 2010
Civic Location Format Extension for Utility and Lamp Post Numbers
draft-george-ecrit-lamp-post-02
Abstract
This document describes an extension to civic location format and
adds two new CAtypes: PN (pole number) and MP (milepost). Pole
Numbers are used on poles such as lamp posts or utility poles, and
can be used in some circumstances as location information. Mileposts
are numeric values measured from an end of a trail, road, railway
line or other feature.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Pole Number and Milepost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. CAtype Registry Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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1. Introduction
In some areas, utility and lamp posts carry a unique identifier,
which we call a pole number in this document. In some countries, the
label on the lamp post also carries the local emergency service
number, such as "110", encouraging callers to use the pole number to
identify their location.
_.-----,===.
| | (''''')
| | `---'
| |
| | ,---------,
| | ,---, |Emergency|
| | /|,-.|----->| Number |
| | / |110| '---------'
| | / |`-'|
|_|/ | 2 | ,---------,
| | | 1 | |Lamp Post|
| | | 2 |----->| Number |
|-| | 1 | '---------'
| |\ | 0 |
| | \ | 1 |
| | \ | 4 |
| | \|,,,|
_ | |
``-..|.|
``--.._
`'--.._
Lamp post with emergency number.
On some roads, and many trails, railroad rights of way and other
linear features, a post with a mile or kilometer distance from one
end of the feature may be found (a "milepost"). There are other
cases of poles or markers with numeric indications that are not the
same as a "house number" or street address number.
In this document, we define an extension of the civic address format
defined in [RFC4119] updated by [RFC5139] to carry such pole number
and milepost information.
2. Terminology Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
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document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
3. Pole Number and Milepost
[RFC4776] and [RFC5139] provides a full set of parameters that may be
used to describe a civic location.
This document describes two new CAtypes, PN (pole number), which is
used to support post numbers, and MP (milepost), which is used to
support mileposts. The pole number can consist of any combination of
letters and digits. Punctuation characters and embedded spaces are
ignored; lower and upper case letters are treated as equivalent.
Mileposts are traditionally mile or kilometer distances from one end
of the feature, but the field may contain any combination of letters,
digits and punctuation characters. There could be country specific
considerations for PN or MP use, but none are described in this
document.
+---------+--------+-------------------------------+--------------+
| CAtype | PIDF | Description | Example |
+---------+--------+-------------------------------+--------------+
| 43 | PN | lamp post number | A12101S |
+---------+--------+-------------------------------+--------------+
| 44 | MP | Milepost | 102.4 |
+---------+--------+-------------------------------+--------------+
Table 1: New Civic PIDF-LO Types
4. Examples
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CN
GD
Shenzhen
Bantian
Wuhe
Bai Cao Yuan
Front Gate
Video Rental Store
518129
2121014
US
PA
Hopewell
Baker Trail
11.4
5. Security Considerations
The security considerations of [RFC4119] is relevant to this
document. No new security considerations arise as a result of these
new fields
6. IANA Considerations
6.1. CAtype Registry Update
This document updates the CAtype registry established by [RFC4776].
Two entries are defined, with values as indicated in Table 1.
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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7.2. Informative References
[RFC3693] Cuellar, J., Morris, J., Mulligan, D., Peterson, J., and
J. Polk, "Geopriv Requirements", RFC 3693, February 2004.
[RFC4119] Peterson, J., "A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object
Format", RFC 4119, December 2005.
[RFC4776] Schulzrinne, H., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses
Configuration Information", RFC 4776, November 2006.
[RFC5139] Thomson, M. and J. Winterbottom, "Revised Civic Location
Format for Presence Information Data Format Location
Object (PIDF-LO)", RFC 5139, February 2008.
Authors' Addresses
Robins George
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Base, Bantian, Longgang District
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518129
P. R. China
Phone: +86-755-28788314
Email: robinsg@huawei.com
Qian Sun
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Base, Bantian, Longgang District
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518129
P. R. China
Phone: +86-755-28787351
Email: sunqian@huawei.com
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Henning Schulzrinne
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
450 Computer Science Building, New York NY, 10027
US
Phone: +1 212 939 7004
Email: hgs@cs.columbia.edu
URI: http://www.cs.columbia.edu
Brian Rosen
NeuStar, Inc.
470 Conrad Dr
Mars, PA 16046
US
Email: br@brianrosen.net
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