- From: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:46:42 +1100
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Cc: John Yunker <jyunker@bytelevel.com>, François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@translate.com>, John Yunker <yunkerjohn@yahoo.com>, GEO <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
Tex Texin wrote: > Yes, I had heard that too and had started to mention it in my comments > and then removed it because identifying > a users location by ip address isn't that reliable. For example, workers > for large companies often connect from anywhere in the world to the > corporate network and then all of their outgoing net requests look to > the rest of the world as if they came from a single client ip address, > which is a proxy for all the companies users. > Within the sectors I work in, location and/or IP address are non-workable as a solution to content negotiation. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham e-Diversity and Content Infrastructure Solutions Public Libraries Unit, Vicnet State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia andrewc@vicnet.net.au Ph. +61-3-8664-7430 Fax: +61-3-9639-2175 http://www.openroad.net.au/ http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/ http://www.vicnet.net.au/
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