Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

[Leen Besselink <leen () consolejunkie net>]

On 03/02/2010 11:46 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> > > Care to explain what that could possibly be? (I simply don't see an
> > > upside to making it easy to censor the internet by national identity).
> > >        
> > Maintenance of "GeoIP"-databases becomes easier and less error-prone ?
> >
> > Possible less out of date because of it.
> >
> > We've seen complaints about those many times on this list.
> >      
> There are much better ways to handle geolocation than reconfiguring
> the structure of the IP address space.  See also:
> <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/geopriv/>
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery>
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-lis-discovery>
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-held-identity-extensions>
>
> Regardless of the technical merits of those specific protocols, which
> have been debated here and elsewhere, geolocation is an
> application-layer concept, and shouldn't be forced down onto the
> network layer.
>
> --Richard
>
>    
I never said we should do so. :-)

I just mentioned it's possible.