[db-wg] NWI-13 Geofeed Legal Analysis

Hi,


On 28/07/2022 15:52, Randy Bush via db-wg wrote:
 > and, being a researcher, i have no clue about
 > this research spin at all.


I also don't understand where the research context is coming from. 
Usually, researchers don't have the need to correct the geolocation of 
so many prefixes to require something like geofeeds.



And I really don't understand why the geofeed attribute would not be 
covered by the current purpose of the RIPE database, as described in the 
article 3.

Geofeed matches "Facilitating coordination between network operators 
(network problem resolution, outage notification etc.)"

Geofeed wants to correct geolocation problems. The geofeed attribute is 
exactly a way to "coordinate between network operators" (with, or 
without, the intermediation of geolocation providers). Geolocation 
problems impact the availability/performance of content/services. The 
medium is the network. Geolocation problems are network problems.



On 28/07/2022 16:58, Laurent Pellegrino via db-wg wrote:

 > It's sad to see real solutions around geolocation (which helps users
 > in many ways) overthought and killed in the eggs.

In general, the solution has not been killed.

It would have been nice to have a neat "geofeed" attribute. However, 
geofeeds are successfully used with remarks in LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC, 
and RIPE. Comments are used in ARIN.

Add a remark/comment "Geofeed https://url-to-my-file" and you are good 
to go. At the moment most of the data is produced with this approach anyway.



Ciao,
Massimo