[ncc-services-wg] IP geolocation services

I do agree that we can put as many records to the database as we want.

Problem is in usabilility (BGP feed is easier to deal with on CDN 
platforms) and first of all speed - with BGP you can follow automaticly 
every change in network topology while separate database needs manual 
intervention.

Konrad Plich

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Jim Reid wrote:

> On 28 Oct 2009, at 08:57, konradpl at zt.piotrkow.tpsa.pl wrote:
>
>> It seems that BGP is the only answer for the problem.
>
> Nope.
>
> Every IP address (or /24) could have a LOC record associated with it. That 
> could work the same way as a reverse DNS lookup.
>
> That said, I think this WG could develop a "Geolocation info from RIR 
> databases (or DNS) considered harmful" RIPE document. IMO there's no need for 
> an RFC or cleverness with ASNs.
>
>