IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

Mon Jun 13 22:53:58 UTC 2005

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:

  The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could 
  hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric 
  and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully 
  map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info updated on "daily 
  basis", pretty hard work though...

You miss the point; what they have done is decouple the requirement 
for correlation to a geographical location in optimizing content 
delivery; the only thing they seem to care about is logical 
topographical location.

As for the 'pretty hard work' part; they seem to be making money off 
it; how's your gig going?

matto

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