Re: Geofeeds are good — was Re: Publishing BGP communties for your network (Re: What's up with BGP communities?)

[Chris Adams via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Once upon a time, Laszlo H <laszlo () heliacal net> said:
> So if we only used it for pre-filling but always asked to confirm,
> it would be no problem.  The problem is taking somebody else's word
> over the user's or even the ISP's.

The problem is largely the traditional media companies of various types
trying to continue to apply cable-TV-centric geographical limitations to
streaming.  Whether it's a streaming provider only having rights to show
a movie in certain countries or live sports streams being limited to
certain cities, it's inherently an adversarial action, where the
streaming company cannot trust the attempted viewer.

It's a never-ending match-up between streamers/GeoIP companies and
viewers and VPN providers, with lots of legitimate would-be viewers
blocked out from things they should have access to but GeoIP has wrong
data.

I remember trying to explain why geographic boundaries and network
boundaries were not connected to a marketing person in the 1990s,
nothing has really changed, but there's big money in pretending it has.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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