[166413] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ipv6 and geolocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Smith)
Tue Oct 22 16:01:41 2013
From: Ian Smith <I.Smith@F5.com>
To: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:00:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAA5Ek4f9JXTKaQUVhTz-2=x+mZX1x1rp_Tne=bv6Zqze_fLvPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Blair Trosper [blair.trosper@gmail.com]=0A=
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:16 PM=0A=
To: nanog@nanog.org=0A=
Subject: ipv6 and geolocation=0A=
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Everyone loves IPv6, and it's a fantastic technology. However, I've been=
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pondering a few quirks of v6, including the low priority of PTR, but I have=
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a question I want to throw out there:=0A=
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Do you think IPv6 geolocatoin (GeoIP) will ever be viable?=0A=
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If so, when do you think this will happen? If not, what's the superseding=
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solution? (The W3C location technology fails miserably for me 100% of the=
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time even on IPv4).=0A=
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Two of the "big four" GeoIP providers don't even catalog IPv6, and the=0A=
other two's IPv6 database is unremarkable and usually only has the country.=
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(Or, in my case, a block that's clearly in the United States is deemed as=
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simply "(somewhere in) Asia".)=0A=
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What I'm getting at is: IPv6 geolocation is presently rather hopeless and=
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useless.=0A=
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Eager to hear thoughts from my fellow network thinkers!=0A=
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- Blair=0A=
