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Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue Jan 19 07:40:34 2010

Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:39:55 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2vdeymgfm.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:23:41PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> surely, with its vast talents, the ietf can make this more complex.
> 
> after all, look at the inflate-and-embellish stupidity that made the
> simple idea of bgp communities for data collecion, completely ueless,
> draft-meyer-collection-communities-00.txt
> 
> </sarcasm>

sorta like how RFC1530, over the course of 10 years, plus some ITU fiddling,
became RFC3761

its interesting how many wheels seem to need re-inventing.

8^)

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