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Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Tue Apr 12 20:22:58 2016

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From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:17:03 -0400
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All GeoIP services would be forced to  document their default lat/long
values so that users know that when these values, they know it is a
generic one for that country. (or supply +181.0000 +91.00000 which is an
invalid value indicating that there is no lat/long, look at country code
given).

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