I do agree that we can put as many records to the database as we want. Problem is in usabilility (BGP feed is easier to deal with on CDN platforms) and first of all speed - with BGP you can follow automaticly every change in network topology while separate database needs manual intervention. Konrad Plich On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Jim Reid wrote:
On 28 Oct 2009, at 08:57, konradpl@zt.piotrkow.tpsa.pl wrote:
It seems that BGP is the only answer for the problem.
Nope.
Every IP address (or /24) could have a LOC record associated with it. That could work the same way as a reverse DNS lookup.
That said, I think this WG could develop a "Geolocation info from RIR databases (or DNS) considered harmful" RIPE document. IMO there's no need for an RFC or cleverness with ASNs.