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Location awareness is the next big thing
Posted by: Jordi on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 07:17 PM
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Seems I'm not alone, MS have just patented a method of storing latitude and longitude data (pity for them they missed height above or below datum for a real 3d world) so I think it is now fairly safe to assume that our next gen ipv6 data packets will not only contain origin and target IP address data and timestamps but also location awareness data.
Complete info at Technocrat.