RFC 8805 on A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 8805

        Title:      A Format for Self-Published IP 
                    Geolocation Feeds 
        Author:     E. Kline,
                    K. Duleba,
                    Z. Szamonek, 
                    S. Moser,
                    W. Kumari
        Status:     Informational
        Stream:     Independent
        Date:       August 2020
        Mailbox:    ek@loon.com, 
                    kduleba@google.com, 
                    zszami@google.com,
                    smoser@google.com, 
                    warren@kumari.net
        Pages:      23
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-google-self-published-geofeeds-09.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8805

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8805

This document records a format whereby a network operator can publish
a mapping of IP address prefixes to simplified geolocation
information, colloquially termed a "geolocation feed".  Interested
parties can poll and parse these feeds to update or merge with other
geolocation data sources and procedures.  This format intentionally
only allows specifying coarse-level location.

Some technical organizations operating networks that move from one
conference location to the next have already experimentally published
small geolocation feeds.

This document describes a currently deployed format. At least one
consumer (Google) has incorporated these feeds into a geolocation
data pipeline, and a significant number of ISPs are using it to
inform them where their prefixes should be geolocated.


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