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

Mon Jun 13 23:06:08 UTC 2005

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matt Ghali 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.

I did not "miss the point". I just pointed that such data would not
be same as geographic location. That akamai does not need geo data
specifcally for their application setup is another matter entirely.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net