On February 16, 2026 at 08:15 nanog@lists.nanog.org (Rich Kulawiec via NANOG) wrote:
On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 10:25:56PM -0800, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
Personally, I???ve always thought that IP Geolocation was a bad idea and nothing I???ve seen in the usage of it to date has changed my mind.
Agree. We've spent decades trying to build a network that allows everyone to access everything independent of geographical location, and now people have come along with broken business models which demand that we abandon this fundamental principle of the Internet in order to accomodate them.
---rsk
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