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Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Mon Jun 13 19:08:57 2005 
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matt Ghali wrote:


 The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could
 hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric
 and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully
 map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info updated on "daily
 basis", pretty hard work though...

You miss the point; what they have done is decouple the requirement
for correlation to a geographical location in optimizing content
delivery; the only thing they seem to care about is logical
topographical location.

I did not "miss the point". I just pointed that such data would not
be same as geographic location. That akamai does not need geo data
specifcally for their application setup is another matter entirely.

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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