[db-wg] Geofeed purpose

Hi Randy, Sylvain

IANAL either but I understood the main legal issue was that there is
no defined purpose to use the RIPE Database for geolocation services.
So whatever is in that referenced file is not covered by a valid
purpose. We have had the "geoloc:" attribute for a long time. The
value of this attribute is similar to the data contained in this file.
So if that data was the problem we would already have a problem
without "geofeed:".

Maybe we can cover all this with an appropriate purpose. Suppose we
defined it in this way:

"Providing geolocation information related to Internet number
resources in a format defined by current IETF specifications."

This covers having a referenced file as long as the content of that
file is as defined in the IETF specs.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 20:20, Randy Bush via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> IANAL and try not to play one on the net.  but ...
>
> my reading of why NCC legal has problems with the geofeed: attribute is
> that they see the NCC as legally liable for the content of the geofeed
> data file to which it points.
>
> this concern may be based, for example, in the courts finding pirate bay
> liable for the content to which they pointed, and similar precident.
>
> so the question is not so much the purpose of the database, it is
> constraining the privacy exposing danger in the geofeed files.  i think
> the authors of RFC 8805 could be of help here.
>
> but again, IANAL.  for one, i charge less :)
>
> randy
>
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