How can an article about IP address exhaustion in ASPAC make no mention of APNIC, the authority assigned the task of regulating IP addresses in the region?
There should still be a fair amount of unallocated global space available which can be given to APNIC to be allocated to members (mostly ISPs), who then assign it to their customers.
I see tons of comment here about Location-Based content on cellular devices (possibly with associated "walled garden" location-based content regimes). Most of these are going to be using network-based Assisted GPS (A-GPS) because it works indoors etc. So, what do you do for Internet-connected devices which aren't on a cellular network and don't have full GPS available? Like 802.11? These technologies could lose out if location-based services aren't available.
A couple of suggestions:
1. Some kind of A-GPS chipset and a third-party "location resolver". The A-GPS system takes a snapshot of GPS satellite signal strengths (and timestamps??) and sends them to be "resolved" by something which is connected to a full GPS setup, and therefore knows which satellites are where.
2. Program an 802.11 Access Point with its latitude/longitude location and get it to use DHCP to pass this to mobile devices which are connected to it? Then they would know their position within (in most cases) 50 metres or so.
I think if we don't get some of these technologies then you'll end up with T-Mobile having one suite of Location-Based content services, Sprint another, Verizon another, AT&T another, etc, and there will never be any content that we all get to use....
Hmmm, Assisted GPS (A-GPS). That's mostly the Qualcomm (they bought Snaptrack) isn't it?
So, on an A-GPS phone, is there any way to reverse engineer the software which takes the snapshot of the satellites' signal strength, and send that somewhere apart from the mobile network operator's position calculation service (like send it to your home PC which is connected to a full GPS device) to calculate a position?
If you could send it somewhere else you wouldn't be restricted to using only GPS-enabled services provided by *your* mobile operator, you could use any one you wanted to all over the Internet. Although of course it looks like Sprint is already going to be allowing its users to do that....
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And don't forget Tele Atlas.
Their data is in lots of in-car Navigation CDs/DVDs, and various online map services, such as Maporama.
They do more or less the same as NavTech to obtain the data.
How can an article about IP address exhaustion in ASPAC make no mention of APNIC, the authority assigned the task of regulating IP addresses in the region?
There should still be a fair amount of unallocated global space available which can be given to APNIC to be allocated to members (mostly ISPs), who then assign it to their customers.
I would say this is a non-issue.
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I see tons of comment here about Location-Based content on cellular devices (possibly with associated "walled garden" location-based content regimes). Most of these are going to be using network-based Assisted GPS (A-GPS) because it works indoors etc. So, what do you do for Internet-connected devices which aren't on a cellular network and don't have full GPS available? Like 802.11? These technologies could lose out if location-based services aren't available.
A couple of suggestions:
1. Some kind of A-GPS chipset and a third-party "location resolver". The A-GPS system takes a snapshot of GPS satellite signal strengths (and timestamps??) and sends them to be "resolved" by something which is connected to a full GPS setup, and therefore knows which satellites are where.
2. Program an 802.11 Access Point with its latitude/longitude location and get it to use DHCP to pass this to mobile devices which are connected to it? Then they would know their position within (in most cases) 50 metres or so.
I think if we don't get some of these technologies then you'll end up with T-Mobile having one suite of Location-Based content services, Sprint another, Verizon another, AT&T another, etc, and there will never be any content that we all get to use....
Hmmm, Assisted GPS (A-GPS). That's mostly the Qualcomm (they bought Snaptrack) isn't it? So, on an A-GPS phone, is there any way to reverse engineer the software which takes the snapshot of the satellites' signal strength, and send that somewhere apart from the mobile network operator's position calculation service (like send it to your home PC which is connected to a full GPS device) to calculate a position? If you could send it somewhere else you wouldn't be restricted to using only GPS-enabled services provided by *your* mobile operator, you could use any one you wanted to all over the Internet. Although of course it looks like Sprint is already going to be allowing its users to do that....