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.
Exactly this. ( Also bravo for 'performative data generation' . So well said. ) There's not really any incentive for any of these providers to be 100% correct. They just need to be 'good enough' that subscribers continue to pay for their data. On the flip side, users of geo data do the same thing. Thats why we always see posts here about 'my geo is wrong and I can't get SoAndSo to talk to me, pls help'. If everyone used the available geo data they'd have nothing to sell. Sorta. Very small percentage of IP space is covered by geofeeds. If this increases and people start to use that instead it should start to move the needle, but not yet. On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM Brandon Butterworth via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
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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