[Starlink] Re: Lost in Space: The Limits of Geolocation in a Satellite-Connected World (new article from Geoff Huston)

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

Frantisek Borsik wrote:

> https://circleid.com/posts/limits-of-geolocation-in-a-satellite-connected-world
>
> “Where are you?” is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The
> telephone system’s address plan embedded a certain amount of physical
> location information in the fixed-line network, and a full E.164 telephone
> number indicated your location in terms of your country and your area
> within that country.

it's worth noting that the ability to use your phone number to locate you has 
now been eliminated. The ability to move numbers from landlines to phone and 
from phone to phone means you can't even know what cell carrier a cell phone 
has. I don't know if you can move numbers from phones to landlines, but I would 
be surprised if you can't/

David Lang

> 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."
>
> All the best,
>
> Frank
>
> Frantisek (Frank) Borsik
>
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