RE: Submitting Fake Geolocation for blocks to Data Brokers and RIRs

[Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Hi,


> > If the endpoint (e.g. web server) is physically located in Germany and
> > you're helping a client misrepresent that it's located in Estonia in
> > order to evade a legal requirement that it be located in Estonia then
> > you've made yourself a party to criminal fraud.

> While I agree with the overall sentiment of your message, I am curious ; have there been any instances where an 
> internet provider has been found liable (criminally or civilly) for willfully misrepresenting IP >geolocation 
> information? 

So to extend this further,  you assign a class of IPs to a customer and register it to them  in the RIPE database.
Do you assign it to the customers address, in Estonia , or use the DC Address which is in Germany? 
Which could be the basis of geolocalizing the Address.
I would not want to be the lawyer on either side of the battle.

Brian