[90334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Tue May 16 13:02:52 2006
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:02:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <e4ccbm$m14$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
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PC> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC)
PC> From: Peter Corlett
PC> Beyond that, you're paying lots of money for information that has a
PC> finer granularity but is arguably no more accurate.
It's precision versus accuracy -- one of the most basic concepts in the
sciences and engineering. These GeoIP products are effectively saying
"492.657135537618435926731948623556863864684714111678294652765 +/- 100".
Eddy
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