Protocol Action: 'HTTP Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)' to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'HTTP Enabled Location Delivery (HELD) '
   <draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-16.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Geographic Location/Privacy 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-geopriv-http-location-delivery-16.txt

Technical Summary:
  A Layer 7 Location Configuration Protocol (L7 LCP) is described that
  is used for retrieving location information from a server within an
  access network.  The protocol includes options for retrieving
  location information in two forms: by value and by reference.  The
  protocol is an extensible application-layer protocol that is
  independent of session-layer.  This document describes the use of
  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) as a transport for the protocol.

Working Group Summary:

 This document represents a very strong consensus position of the 
 GEOPRIV working group. This consensus was unusually difficult 
 to acheive and carries a long history of conflict and compromise.

Document Quality:

There is at least one existing implementations of the protocol