[PLUG-TALK] Static IP address geolocation

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Apr 3 20:51:49 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

>> Geolocating IPs is something for which people find 70% accuracy
>> perfectly acceptable, because it is better (for them) than
>> <70%. Personally (echoing Tomas) I consider some geographical
>> ambiguity a nice feature. Of course, I want to switch everyone to UTC
>> and do away with timezone proliferation.  Your mileage may vary, but
>> your influence on ip geolocation practices is very weak.

Rich> Today's GPS technology should allow higher accuracy.

Geolocating IP addresses is not a GPS problem. IP addresses do not carry
GPS receivers. Most IP addresses are not static, but are handed out as
needed from a pool and constantantly reused in different locations.

An ISP can connect its IP address provisioning records to its billing
records for a customer, and they will do that for police. But there is
no GPS inside your fiber or cable modem.


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Russell Senior, President
russell at personaltelco.net



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