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Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Wed, 27 November 2013 20:23 UTC

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To: Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:42:32 -0500." <B939184E-AE28-44CE-A6E5-80EDB34E32CD@nominum.com>
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In message <B939184E-AE28-44CE-A6E5-80EDB34E32CD@nominum.com>, Ted Lemon writes
:
> On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:52 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> > And it has the same problem as do-not-track, there's no way to tell
> > whether people you don't trust are following it.
>
> I thought the point was for it to advise network geolocation survey bots
> that the hotspot with this ssid is mobile and can't be used for
> geolocation.
>

The point was for it to advise network survey bots that the hotspot
with this ssid can't/shouldn't be recorded in any database.

There are reasons to set this other than the ap is mobile.

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