[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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