draft-ietf-geopriv-reqs-04.txt

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

My comments:

> 8.3. Emergency Case
> 
>    Let us consider the situation where the authentication fails in an
>    emergency call because the authentication center fails to
>    authenticate itself.  In this case, one way of implementing the
>    authentication bypass for emergency calls, mentioned in Req 15.3) is
>    to let the user have the choice of writing a Rule that says:
>    -  "If the emergency server does not authenticate itself, send the
>       location information anyway", or
>    -  "If the emergency server does not authenticate itself, let the
>   call fail".

I would have assumed an obvious third choice: make the call anyway,
but don't include the location information. Is there a particular
reason why that choice isn't listed here?

Is an unstated assumption here that location information MUST be
provided, or the emergecny call won't be accepted?

>          information. It may either Â?pushÂ?Ã? rules to a location server,
>          or a location server may Â?pullÂ?Ã? rules from the Rule Holder.

funny characters

>          of the Geopriv Protocol..

s/.././

Thomas