[ncc-services-wg] IP geolocation services

* Arkley, Patrick <patrick.arkley at se.verizonbusiness.com> [2009-10-27 21:57]:

>    I think this should be addressed to the companies using Geolocation
>    technics. Not the the RIR's nor the LIR's.

Well, of course. And note that noone are blaming the RIRs. But as you've
experienced yourself, it's not easy being an ISP or LIR and discussing
this directly. Most of the time, at least from my experience, you won't
even get a decent answer.

The RIRs should consider establishing communication channels with at
least the major GeoIP service providers, but preferably also to major
service providers relying on geo-location, like Google, Yahoo etc. It
should be in their own interest that this info is as accurate as
possible, so I believe they will listen if the party bringing this up is
big enough and have suggestions on how this can be done efficiently. I'm
having difficulties seeing who else than the RIRs would be best suited
to coordinate this work.

If this becomes wild west (well, it is already), ISP A's business in,
say, Britain could be seriously impacted because the RIR allocated an IP
block perviously used in Italy to the LIR. ISP A lose customers to ISP B
and gets a lot of negative headlines because the customers can access
<insert popular web service> from ISP B, but not from ISP A. The
customers and journalists don't care who's to blame, and ISP A has no
tool to control the situation, and in worst case it won't be fixed it in
a long time. In my opinion, this is a very serious matter and must be
treated accordingly. 

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