LACNIC To Launch IP Geolocation Initiative
August 30, 2018
LACNIC’s Technology Department has been working on the development of a beta version of a geolocation application for IP addresses allocated by LACNIC to organizations and companies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Developed by LACNIC engineers, the project was inspired by an idea discussed by the IETF: publishing IP geolocation information in a standardized format.
Geolocation is the process that links the IP address that a computer uses to connect to the Internet with its real-world geographic location.
To develop the GeoFeeds platform, the LACNIC team worked based on “Self-published IP Geolocation Data” [ID: Self Published Geofeeds], which Google engineers presented to the IETF in 2013 and basically allows operators to publish information about where an IP address is located. “We are offering our community the chance to test a beta service that will allow them to generate and publish information on the location of the IP address blocks they are using,” said LACNIC CTO Carlos Martínez.
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An organization can access the system created by LACNIC (available at https://geofeeds.lacnic.net/) and voluntarily generate information on the geographic location of their IP addresses.
In addition, the geofeed information generated by the system is available for download at https://geofeeds.lacnic.net/geo/geoFeeds.csv
LACNIC member companies or organizations willing to contribute can enter information on where the IP addresses they have been allocated by the regional registry are being used (city, country, post code).