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RFC 4776
Title: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4
and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses
Configuration Information
Author: H. Schulzrinne
Status: Proposed Standard
Date: November 2006
Mailbox:
hgs+geopriv@cs.columbia.edu Pages: 19
Characters: 45495
Obsoletes: RFC4676
See-Also:
I-D Tag: draft-rfc4676bis-00.txt
URL:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4776.txtRFC 4776 is being published to correct an error in the assignment of
the numeric value of the DHCPv6 option-code in RFC 4676 (Section 3.2).
This document obsoletes RFC 4676.
This document specifies a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4
and DHCPv6) option containing the civic location of the client or the
DHCP server. The Location Configuration Information (LCI) includes
information about the country, administrative units such as states,
provinces, and cities, as well as street addresses, postal community
names, and building information. The option allows multiple
renditions of the same address in different scripts and languages.
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Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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