Re: Update on geo-hint header

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Tommy Pauly writes:

> Essentially, if the client (or whoever is involved in choosing the IP for 
> proxying cases, etc) wants to have their effective geolocation reflect the IP
> they chose, they have an incentive to share an accurate database entry.

I think it far more likely that people will set it wrong, either
willfully or through through geo-data-incompetence.

There may be other arguments for the geo-hint header, but precision is
probably not one.

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Received on Thursday, 7 July 2022 15:42:54 UTC