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Re: remember incentives! Re: wireless geolocation

2017-06-08 11:04:30

Eliot Lear <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:
    > On 6/8/17 12:09 AM, John Levine wrote:
    >> I'd say that summary is not even wrong.  Our problem is not technical.
    >> Geolocation is handled by a handful of companies that have no
    >> incentive to solve our problem.

    > THIS.

    > Those companies make their business off of selling information, and that
    > information has to be accurate to within some degree.  The IETF is in
    > the noise.  How many roaming show networks are there really?  If this is
    > something that is really important to the IETF, then the organization
    > should use equipment where the BSSID is changed, and/or perhaps start to
    > rely on local facilities to provide the appropriate services.  Yes, that
    > might prove expensive.

So, if we want to get their attention, we need to increase the noise until
the data is useless? :-)

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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