[ncc-services-wg] IP geolocation services

In message <20091028160953.GN58385 at reiftel.karrenberg.net>, at 17:09:53 
local time, on Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Daniel Karrenberg 
<daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> remarked:
>Acually MaxMind  are also providing city. You can see this in REX when using
>the "Geolocation" tab. This tool provides a year of history too, so you can check
>what Maxmind thinks o any block you may be about to start using.
>
>http://labs.ripe.net/content/rex-resource-explainer

That gives an interesting view of my home IP address (within 
83.67.0.0/17) - currently "London", although for four months this
summer they apparently split it into sixteen different cities.

None of which is closer than 100Km to where I really live...

But they got the country right (which is what 
intellectual-property-owning users of geolocation services seem most 
worried about).
-- 
Roland Perry
Public Affairs Officer, RIPE NCC