I bet each company uses a variety of methods to build their data set, not least of which is the one you mentioned.
I don't think the larger (and by larger, I meant the ones with the most users) ISP community is so concerned about the accuracy of geoIP info, or even need to follow the routes we do, but there would be benefit to everyone else. And I don't think the interested members here on NANOG have the collective ability (in this virtual world) to interest any of the mentioned geoIP sites to work with us (NANOG). The most successful strategy would be for a NANOG member to work through their corporate (physical) channels to establish the relationships, and then bring the rest of NANOG on board. Sorry to rain on the parade, but face-to-face seems to be what it takes to make things like this happen. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swm...@swm.pp.se] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data? On Fri, 1 May 2009, Frank Bulk wrote: > What we need is a "master update" form where Akamai, Google, Maxmind, > hostip.info, Geobytes, ip2location, ipgeo, etc can be notified about > changes. Perhaps we as the ISP community need to realise that we need to somehow publish this data (town or something alike) via some kind of standardized API? Right now I guess they use tracking cookies together with e-commerce account registration to deduct where an IP is from? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
