- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:42:46 +0000
- To: Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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