RE: Accurate location information is a "must have" requirement

["Roland H. Alden" <ralden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>I urge that we don't go down this path. Location for an event is a
>property
>of a participant. Making it a property of an event will cause many more
>problems than it will solve.

I appreciate why, in the case of a teleconference, location
for the "event" itself is meaningless. However, for many
events, such as a concert for instance, it is of paramount
importance. I understand that different people may place
different interpretations on a location. For one person
"Madison Square Garden" may be very far away, for another
it might be a short cab ride. However the location of the
an event at Madison Square Garden *is* a "property of
the event" and does not change, even if some people watch
the event of TV (one could argue that the TV broadcast is
a separate event). I think that "publishers" of such events
have a legitimate need to record this information is a 
well-defined way. I don't think the fact that the information 
may be null or "overridden" by a specific participant argues that
the information is not a valid property of some events.
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