[ncc-services-wg] IP geolocation services

* Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet <Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at> [2009-10-27 17:18]:

> My personal feeling is that the RIRs' databases are definitely the wrong
> place to maintain such (volatile) data (in many cases for subranges of
> registry entries!) and the RIRs are the wrong organisatins to get involved
> with such a "service".

While I would probably agree that the RIRs databases would be the wrong
place to maintain the data, and that the RIRs probably shouldn't provide
this service directly, I do think it's important that the RIRs try to
establish some standards regarding notifications and updates. 

This seems to be a pretty common problem today, and most probably even
more so in the future, as the usage of geo-location services for sure
will increase, and the number of ISPs/organizations who will either have
to renumber and/or receive additional IP blocks previously allocated to
someone else, will increase. 

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