Subject: [Ecrit] Civic boundary draft

From: "Thomson, Martin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:49:30 +0800

This draft describes what a boundary means for civic addresses:

  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-ecrit-civic-boundary-00>

I've said in the past that the definition of service boundaries for civic addresses has been inadequate in both LoST and the rough-loc work.

This draft seeks to address that deficiency.  There's a simple algorithm that can be used to test whether one civic address is "within" another.  There's also some discussion on the shortcomings of such simple tests, and some address- and border-combining algorithms.

--Martin