[LINK] RFI: Geolocation based on IP-Address

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:47 +0930 27/9/07, Glen Turner wrote:
>Sometimes you want the network topology anyway: such as
>when you want to present someone with their nearest
>mirror site or content distribution node.  That's
>done using a BGP feed from each mirror/node or by
>inferring the network topology from echo times.

BGP data is for operational management of the network.  It's 
equivalent to the kinds of data that are tightly controlled within 
the PSTN.

Am I being naive in considering that BGP data shouldn't be available 
to a generic service-provider like http://www.ip2location.com/?

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