Subject: Document Action: 'Location-to-URL Mapping Architecture and Framework' to Informational RFC

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:15:40 -0700 (PDT)

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Location-to-URL Mapping Architecture and Framework '
   <draft-ietf-ecrit-mapping-arch-04.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Emergency Context Resolution with 
Internet Technologies Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Robert Sparks.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ecrit-mapping-arch-04.txt

Technical Summary
 
The Location-to-URL mapping architecture document describes an
architecture for a global, scalable, resilient and administratively
distributed system for mapping geographic location information to
URLs, using the Location-to-Service (LoST) protocol. 
The architecture generalizes well-known approaches found in
hierarchical lookup systems such as DNS.
 
Working Group Summary
 
There is consensus in the WG to publish this document.
 
Protocol Quality
 
The LoST protocol has been implemented and the
interaction between LoST nodes, as described in this document,
has been tested.