The IESG has received a request from the Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies WG (ecrit) to consider the following document: - 'Synchronizing Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Protocol based Service Boundaries and Mapping Elements' <draft-ietf-ecrit-lost-sync-17.txt> as an Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2012-04-18. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) protocol is an XML-based protocol for mapping service identifiers and geodetic or civic location information to service URIs and service boundaries. In particular, it can be used to determine the location-appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for emergency services. The main data structure, the <mapping> element, used for encapsulating information about service boundaries is defined in the LoST protocol specification and circumscribes the region within which all locations map to the same service Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or set of URIs for a given service. This document defines an XML protocol to exchange these mappings between two nodes. This mechanism is designed for the exchange of authoritative <mapping> elements between two entities. Exchanging cached <mapping> elements, i.e. non-authoritative elements, is possible but not envisioned. In any case, this document can also be used without the LoST protocol even though the format of the <mapping> element is re-used from the LoST specification. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ecrit-lost-sync/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ecrit-lost-sync/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1257/
