<div dir="ltr"><div>The nature of teleport oeprations for geostationary operators is that the IP space an end user will be in is usually in some very mundane RIPE or APNIC or ARIN /24 that looks like it's located in Miami, or Brussels, or Cyprus.</div><div><br></div><div>This is complicated by the fact that an individual /26 sized block of space used by a VSAT hub operator for point-to-multipoint contended access c, ku or ka-band vsat might have terminals in many different countries. <br></div><div><br></div><div>A big portion of my Afghanistan stuff all used to meet the public internet in either Usingen, Germany or Singapore.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 22:27, Hank Nussbacher <<a href="mailto:hank@interall.co.il">hank@interall.co.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 24/06/2022 03:21, Phillip Remaker wrote:<br>
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There are a number of satellite providers for boats/ships: viasat, <br>
inmarsat, speedcast, marlink, navarino, kvh, thrane, iridium, hughes and <br>
probably others I am missing. I seem to remember that Maxmind and <br>
others used some sort of ad-hoc country code like XX to signify an IP <br>
associated with an area not covered by a country.<br>
<br>
-Hank<br>
<br>
> I don;t know who gets to decide such a thing, but I think it's a great <br>
> idea as long as it is appropriately tagged. Diversity of deployed probes <br>
> is helpful.<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 10:16 AM Michael Markstaller via ripe-atlas <br>
> <<a href="mailto:ripe-atlas@ripe.net" target="_blank">ripe-atlas@ripe.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ripe-atlas@ripe.net" target="_blank">ripe-atlas@ripe.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> just a question:<br>
> any interest to have a probe on a sailboat with Starlink (not<br>
> officially<br>
> supported)<br>
> <br>
> Just got my probe Probe #27837 fixed again at home (usb-stick RO/dead)<br>
> and now I wonder if I leave it at home or take it with me over<br>
> Adriatic/Atlantic.<br>
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