[163179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geoip lookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Larsen)
Fri May 24 02:34:48 2013
From: Andreas Larsen <andreas.larsen@ip-only.se>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: <367EA6A4-927C-4391-8F9A-2F979C0C789B@virtualized.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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If we continue to support and build tools around this geolocation based
ip-dravel, we give people a false notion that this is something we should
do.=20
Identify users with some other means that Geoip
Couple of things comes to mind.
* normal postage mail that they have to collect at their home and send
back confirming that they are indeed in the country from where their IP is
* Passports scanned.
* Fingerprinting
Or just get rid of the whole idea and realize that the internet is global
and reaches everywhere no matter what your IP currently is.
Med v=E4nlig h=E4lsning
Andreas Larsen
=20
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Den 2013-05-24 08:17 skrev David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>:
>On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen <andreas.larsen@ip-only.se>
>wrote:
>> The whole idea of Geoip is flawed.
>
>Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution.
>
>> IP dosen't reside in countries,
>
>True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions...
>
>Regards,
>-drc
>
