[81508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Jun 13 19:07:58 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:06:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506131551040.9217@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:
> The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could
> hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric
> and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully
> map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info updated on "daily
> basis", pretty hard work though...
>
> You miss the point; what they have done is decouple the requirement
> for correlation to a geographical location in optimizing content
> delivery; the only thing they seem to care about is logical
> topographical location.
I did not "miss the point". I just pointed that such data would not
be same as geographic location. That akamai does not need geo data
specifcally for their application setup is another matter entirely.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
