ATIS - Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
Scope
Introduction This Technical Report (TR) describes the support of Location Based Commercial Services in the IP environment of a Next Generation Network (NGN). Location Based Commercial Services acquire geographical location information about one or more targets and provide services@ based on that location information@ to the user invoking the service. Examples of Location Based Commercial Services include Directory Assistance@ Information Services (e.g.@ weather)@ Navigation Services@ Friends and Family Finder Services@ and Vehicle Tracking Services. The Location Based Commercial Services may or may not support call center agents. This TR: ? Provides an example set of Location Based Commercial Services@ ? Describes the NGN/IP architecture that supports such services@ ? Provides end to end information flows based on existing ATIS@ Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)@ and IETF Geographical Location/Privacy (GEOPRIV) standards@ and ? Concludes that such services can be supported by existing standards. The end-to-end information flows and the analysis focus on authorization (i.e.@ for the Location Based Commercial Service to obtain and use the location information) and privacy (i.e.@ the ability of the user to control the release and use of private location information.)