[188658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 11 15:27:46 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:27:39 -0400
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:13:48 +0200, Niels Bakker said:
> * baldur.norddahl@gmail.com (Baldur Norddahl) [Mon 11 Apr 2016, 21:02 CEST]:
> >They should stop giving out coordinates on houses period. Move the
> >coordinate to the nearest street intersection if you need to be that
> >precise (I would prefer nearest town square). Anything more than that
> >should be illegal.
>
> That's going to make USPS's and FedEx's lives a lot harder.
Are they in the habit of delivering to a location identified by an IP
address? I've never managed to get either one to deliver to anything
other than a street address (and in fact, we recently had to assign street
addresses to all the buildings on campus because too many GPS-based programs
only work on street addresses, not building names).
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