Revised Civic Format

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Revised Civic Format

• James Winterbottom

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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.

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Proposal

• The draft proposes a new schema with a name space
  of urnietfparamsxmlnspidfgeopriv10civicAddr
  
• 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.

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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 xmllang
  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 xmllang type.

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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)

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Other Changes from PIDF-LO

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