Revised Civic Format

James Winterbottom

Motivation

• Investigations and work done on civic representations has expanded somewhat since the initial version of the GeoPriv Civil specification.

• Work done by Henning Schulzrinne for the DHCP Civil draft highlighted the need for some additional fields.

• Still further fields were identified as required by delegates from Japan.

Proposal

• The draft proposes a new schema with a name space of urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr

• Schema introduces 7 new Civic Address types.

• Creates a new namespace rather than extensions to the old to avoid confusion and allow deprication of old namespace.

Proposal (cont)

• Basic building block is now a caType which is an extension of the XML token rather than string. This makes equivalence matching between values easier as ambiguities regarding spaces are removed.

• caType defined has an attribute for the xml:lang allowing caTypes to be specified in different languages.

• All caTypes defined in the new schema have a corresponding value in DHCP civil draft. Making the schemas compatible.– Note that the DHCP civil “script” CAType is omitted in favour of

the xml:lang type.

New Fields

• BLD :- the name of a building or structure (Pinnacle Hotel)

• UNIT :- unit, apartment or suite (12a)• ROOM :- room (150f)• SEAT :- seat, workstation or desk (ws181)• PLC :- The placetype (office)• POBOX:- The post office box (U40)• ADDCODE :- Additional Code (13203000003)

Other Changes from PIDF-LO

• Country code is now restricted to two uper case characters to be in line with ISO.3166.1988