IP Geolocation website (free lookups)

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Aug 24 12:37:00 EDT 2004


On Aug 24, 2004, at 09:17, Fred wrote:

> There is a bit of controversy about "dividing up" the Internet on the
> basis of IP origin. Personally, I have no problems with this if done 
> for
> purely marketing reasons, but other uses may not be as savory. Some may
> even question doing that with marketing. What's your opinion on it?

It's a hard problem, but VOIP starting to push the issue around E911.  
I suspect they'll solve that one at the application layer.  Still, an 
ICMP message type for GPS coordinates could be fun. :)

-Bill
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