[db-wg] Geolocation data prototype in the RIPE Database

06.10.2011 13:20, Hendrik T. Voelker пишет:
> There are other aspects as well. There are for sure lots of people out
> there who do NOT want their IP address geolocated. And then there are
> different privacy regulation in every country which have to be observed.
>
> Also depending on the internal routing of the IP address possessor,
> the real location can vary heavily and the whole network is not
> necessarily used completely at the same location. In the end you'd
> have to attach a current location to every single address ...
>
> If anybody should submit the current location it is the end user alone.
It's all true only in case of publishing precise location - up to meters
(in form of coordinates, of cause). But no one insist on such accuracy -
you can give a rough coordinates with only accuracy up to street or even
city.

-- 
With best regards,
Dennis Yusupoff,
network engineer of
Smart-Telecom ISP
Russia, Saint-Petersburg 


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