[114122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri May 1 16:30:08 2009
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905012004150.22851@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 16:29:56 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 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?
hey lookie! dns TXT records!! :)
> Right now I guess they use tracking cookies together with e-commerce account
> registration to deduct where an IP is from?
there are probably many ways to do this, sure... but if there were a
standard API that was updated and accurate it might make things
simpler for all involved, eh?
