A RIPE hosted geolocation feed may indeed provide some advantages, however in my opinion this should instead be based on data supplied by the LIR (or end user for PI assignments), as
it would be using an external geolocation feed, instead of automatically via Atlas. There are various reasons for why a measurement approach may return bad data (i.e. routing inconsistencies).
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From: db-wg <db-wg-bounces@ripe.net>
On Behalf Of Elad Cohen via db-wg
Sent: Wednesday, 7 October 2020 17:01
To: Horváth Ágoston János <horvath.agoston@gmail.com>; Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
Cc: db-wg@ripe.net >> Database WG <db-wg@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [db-wg] proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'
+1
and I would like to suggest an adjustment:
Not everyone will add the "geofeed" value and the geolocations in the csv will not validated by a 3rd party and may also be not up to date.
I suggest to make the csv creation (of each INETNUM object) automatic and hosted by RIPE NCC, RIPE NCC can use all the current ATLAS Probes in order to check the physical location of each ip (using
latencies from many probes to each ip, and using latencies from many probes to each router in the routing path to each ip, other ICMP queries can be used as well to query the routers in the routing path for physical information such as timezone as additional
measures, etc). Algorithem will be efficient meaning at first only small number of probes will check each ip and then more probes physically near the first probe with the smallest latency.
Kind Regards,
Elad
From: db-wg <db-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Job Snijders via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5:19 PM
To: Horváth Ágoston János <horvath.agoston@gmail.com>
Cc: db-wg@ripe.net >> Database WG <db-wg@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [db-wg] proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:'
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 03:43:33PM +0200, Horváth Ágoston János wrote:
> An interesting proposal, but merging an external data set with RIPE
> Database arises some questions:
>
> - RIPE Database is set up to contain hierarchical data already. With this
> proposal, we would take some of this data outside the database in a manner
> that does not guarantee consistency with the database itself.
I don't think that is what is happening, this is more analogous to
"abuse-mailbox:". The value contains an email address (which is an
entrypoint outside the database, and interacting with the entrypoint is
outside the scope of this working group).
The "geofeed:" attribute is a pointer to elsewhere, and what a data
consumer wants to do with that information is up to them.
Kind regards,
Job