[114110] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri May 1 14:08:04 2009
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 20:06:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 1 May 2009, Frank Bulk wrote:
> What we need is a "master update" form where Akamai, Google, Maxmind,
> hostip.info, Geobytes, ip2location, ipgeo, etc can be notified about
> changes.
Perhaps we as the ISP community need to realise that we need to somehow
publish this data (town or something alike) via some kind of standardized
API?
Right now I guess they use tracking cookies together with e-commerce
account registration to deduct where an IP is from?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
