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Re: [Geopriv] Add IP address prefixes in held-identity-extensions?

Ray.Bellis@nominet.org.uk Fri, 16 October 2009 22:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Add IP address prefixes in held-identity-extensions?
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> The use case that got me started was that a lot of entities nowadays use 

> the WHOIS databases as an approximate geolocation tool for IP address 
> allocations.  You could replace this functionality with a real location 
> service using a combination of HELD servers that know about prefixes and 

> lis-discovery records in the reverse-DNS trees.

And we do of course already have a draft [
draft-thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery] which describes using the 
reverse-DNS trees to find HELD servers...

Ray

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