[90304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sgorman1@gmu.edu)
Mon May 15 17:25:15 2006
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:24:48 -0400
From: sgorman1@gmu.edu
In-reply-to: <7.0.1.0.2.20060515160334.022a2378@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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The NSA was granted a patent for an IP geo-location technology based on triangulation using latency measures. We played around with a similar approach using UDP several years ago and you could triangulate to the zip code level or so. A better way I think than the current approaches being discussed. Not sure if the NSA patent is being commercialized or not though.
http://news.com.com/NSA+granted+Net+location-tracking+patent/2100-7348_3-5875953.html
