[110376] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skywing)
Sun Jan 4 19:23:58 2009
From: Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>
To: Greg Skinner <gds@gds.best.vwh.net>, Martin Hannigan
<martin@theicelandguy.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:23:39 -0600
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Any "security" provided (I must assume that you speak of fraud prevention s=
ervices) is the probablistic sort, of reducing, for example, aggregate (and=
not specific) losses.
=96 S
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Skinner <gds@gds.best.vwh.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 15:52
To: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-i=
p for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:31:28AM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in te=
rms
> of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to
> continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment.
I don't see how this technology can be improved past a certain point,
because the criteria that are used to determine location are only
coincidentally tied to location (they are the result of administrative
policy and/or configuration). At best, they provide a false sense of
"security".
--gregbo
