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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Frantisek Borsik <frantisek.borsik@gmail.com>,
	starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Lost in Space: The Limits of Geolocation in a Satellite-Connected World (new article from Geoff Huston)
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:47:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23406.1759337252@obiwan.sandelman.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22339.1759337017@obiwan.sandelman.ca>

{I don't remember to turn off the signature}

Frantisek Borsik via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    > within that country. The Internet did not adopt a geographic address plan,
    > which means that you will need a lot of additional information to map an IP
    > address to a location at the country or city level."

There is still time to do this :-)
I think
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-hain-ipv6-geo-addr-02
is still a good idea, and I'd still like to do SHIM6.

I also think that it would actually benefit Starlink and OneWeb, given
inter-satellite communications.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-10-01 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-01  5:34 [Starlink] " Frantisek Borsik
2025-10-01  5:56 ` [Starlink] " J Pan
2025-10-01 16:46   ` Michael Richardson
2025-10-01 17:40     ` J Pan
2025-10-01 21:08       ` Michael Richardson
2025-10-01 22:50         ` J Pan
2025-10-01 13:18 ` Livingood, Jason
2025-10-01 21:22   ` David Lang
2025-10-01 21:51     ` Spencer Sevilla
2025-10-01 22:48       ` J Pan
2025-10-01 23:05       ` David Lang
2025-10-02  4:34         ` J Pan
     [not found] ` <22339.1759337017@obiwan.sandelman.ca>
2025-10-01 16:47   ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2025-10-01 21:13 ` David Lang

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