Re: Geofeeds are adversarial — was Re: Geofeeds are good

[Brandon Butterworth via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 17/02/2026 15:40:32, "Mu via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> Funny, in this single email thread with only a handful of people you've had to make corrections "several times".

There are probably many more, I did not bother responding then or
correcting their bad data for me.

> It's crazy that there's apparently a viable business model in creating bad data and selling it.

What is marketed is being more correct than the next company so
there is incentive for performative data generation.

Being more correct or not is less important as long as you perform
the correction ritual in public to maintain appearances, or at
least tell everyone to take it to DMs. How close such corrections
take you to being more correct is unverifiable.

> And when that bad data inevitably causes issues... you force others to correct it!

The public correction ritual is important for marketing that you
have the freshest data so constant fixing is good. Buyers don't
want stale data.

> All while ignoring the correct data operators are _already providing_.

If everyone used the available geo data they'd have nothing to sell.

brandon

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