William, The plan is to carve out a /24 for "Estonia" and have special servers on it. This would be the same /24 I'd have to use if I were to put a legitimate POP there. This also means I don't conflict with the real Germany. I am just worried about violating the 'rules' of these providers and getting myself blacklisted from submitting corrections. Afterall the traceroute will still show us hitting a router in Germany before it hits my network. Traceroutes aren't the end all be all but it's a tell-tale sign. I guess this is all ISP-reported info so it's not "illegal" or a violation in any way. -Nanoguser100 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 4:31 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:35 PM nanoguser100 nanoguser100@protonmail.com wrote:
providing cloud hosted desktop solutions for end users.
I missed this on the first read. Virtual Desktop along the lines of Azure Virtual Desktop, Google VDI or Amazon Workspaces.
I would emphasize this; it'll help folks on the group offer better information.
We are not a VPN per-se, it's more of a cloud hosted remote desktop service. We do have a VPN service as well which provides security services.
That's a really interesting question. Some uses of geolocation will give suboptimal results if you pick Estonia since the packets need to go to Germany. Others, like content restriction, won't work right unless the IPs reflect the users' location.
Generally, I think the geolocation is represented as the rough region where the servers are, with services that care about geolocation for content restriction intentionally disallowing them. That's the safe answer. For the alternative, I expect the different consumers of geolocation services will have different opinions about it.
With that being said is it proper for transit providers to advertise the IP of their end users?
Yes.
Are we considered a true transit provider since we are not an ISP per-se?
No. It's not whether you're an ISP, the IP packets are stopping at your network; you're not transiting them onward.
Regards, Bill Herrin
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