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No one cares about old hardware when solving a modern problem. Existing IP <-> geolocation methods, assuming they are up to date and have easy maintenance, are good enough. I know that assumption isn't always able to be made, but that's a separate conversation. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Masataka Ohta" <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 9:50:11 AM Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett wrote: > Every device that would be capable of doing anything also has an OS. Old computers had hardware (manually manipulated switches and light bulbs to read/write specific memory locations) to install boot strap loader to download OS without any OS. > The only involvement ISPs should have is ensuring that they have > proper IP <-> geolocation information Though IP layer has notion of location w.r.t. network topology, it is not geolocation, which is why there is no precise geolocation services to be relied by essential services such as emergency alert. Masataka Ohta
