Re: Geoip lookup

[Andreas Larsen <andreas.larsen () ip-only se>]

If we continue to support and build tools around this geolocation based
ip-dravel, we give people a false notion that this is something we should
do. 
Identify users with some other means that Geoip

Couple of things comes to mind.

* normal postage mail that they have to collect at their home and send
back confirming that they are indeed in the country  from where their IP is
* Passports scanned.
* Fingerprinting

Or just get rid of the whole idea and realize that the internet is global
and reaches everywhere no matter what your IP currently is.

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Andreas Larsen
 
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Den 2013-05-24 08:17 skrev David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>:

> On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen <andreas.larsen () ip-only se>
> wrote:
> > The whole idea of Geoip is flawed.
>
> Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution.
>
> > IP dosen't reside in countries,
>
> True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions...
>
> Regards,
> -drc