29 Jun
2020
29 Jun
'20
8:52 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:22 PM Nick Hilliard via db-wg db-wg@ripe.net wrote:
Peter Müller wrote on 29/06/2020 20:54:
What would you do if you need to build a database to determine the country assigned to an IP address - let's take the one assigned to it by it's owner, regardless of jurisdiction or physical location -?
There's no short or easy answer to this - if there were, there would be lots of geo-ip databases available on the internet.
Also, GeoIP data is collected to do different things. Some people care about jurisdiction, other care about territorial rights for media distribution, other care about language, and others care about latency. No single database is going to be good at doing all those things.