Re: I-D Action: draft-pauly-httpbis-geoip-hint-01.txt

Hiya,

On 29/10/2024 01:05, David Schinazi wrote:
> However, we can't commit to changing our employers'
> business practices - as you can imagine, that is beyond our paygrades. So
> we have to solve the technical problem at hand within the confines of what
> we have control over as engineers. So Stephen, while fixing all abuses of
> user location on the Internet is a worthwhile goal, it's not something that
> we can achieve with an RFC.

I mostly agree (other than the "we have to", since we don't have
to:-), but while people are facing a storm of abuse of location
data, I'd argue the better engineering approach is to start from
an analysis of whether or not defining a new HTTP header is likely
to improve or worsen the overall situation. A handy small fold-up
umbrella is good in a drizzle, but not a thing to widely distribute
in a storm;-)

Cheers,
S.