XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.c   
   mp.os.windows-11   
   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Jeff,   
      
   >> Maybe that is because there is no automated way to determine the   
   >> "floor number".   Especially for devices which task it is to do   
   >> DNS, DHCP and so on - those do not even contain hardware to   
   >> determine their own X/Y location.   
   >   
   > Quoting myself:  "Note that the data does not need to be derived   
   > from GPS data.  Since it doesn't change (often), it could be   
   > entered into the database when the DNS record was created."   
      
   Two things about that :   
      
   1) You are talking about *users*, the ones who cannot even be arsed to   
   change a default password.   
      
   2) There is no reason to put the truth in there - it has zero function for   
   them.   
      
   Worse, privacy-concious people would leave it at its default on purpose (I   
   certainly would).   
      
   And than there is the problem how a human would determine the floor number   
   he's on.  Besides all the houses/buildings that have a half-sunken/elevated   
   "cellar" (where you have to go up half a flight of stairs to reach the front   
   door) there are also houses where going up/down half a flight of stairs gets   
   you to the next room.   
      
   > I suggest you not pass judgment on technology that you   
   > might consider old and instead concentrate on whether   
   > they might actually work.   
      
   You misunderstood : I did not say it was old, I indicated that it had a   
   *lot* of time to come to fruition, but that has not happened.   
      
   As for "might actually work" ?   It doesn't bring any benefits to the user,   
   so most of them will simply not bother with it.   
      
   As I assume that the people who wrote that RFC where aware of the "if   
   /everybody/ has to do it to make it work, than it won't work" saying I have   
   to assume it was put up as a joke.   
      
   > That's true which is why sports GPS receivers often include a   
   > barometric altimeter:   
      
   Which are also a problem : it relies on air pressure, which varies under the   
   different weather types.  /Way/ enough to make the measurement go up/down a   
   number of floors.  Its also a relative measurement, and needs to be   
   calibrated before use.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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