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Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-intarea-shared-addressing-issues-02

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 03 February 2011 01:06 UTC

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On 2/2/2011 5:04 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:
...
>> At the least, it's worth noting that geolocation is already broken by
>> tunnels, and that IP addressing does not ensure geographic proximity
>> before attributing breakage on NATs or other sharing.
>
> Tunnels need not break geo-location. -- They do not masquerade the
> source address. Or am I missing something?

When I tunnel using an ISI address, whomever sees my address thinks I'm 
in California.

Except that there's an ISI office in Virginia too.

And if I'm VPN'd in, the tunnel makes me have an ISI IP address 
regardless of where I actually am.

Joe

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