From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 01:25:20 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: How to fight GAK by obeying the law
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Ernest Hua wrote:

> First thing we definitely need is a way to determine with fairly good
> accuracy, whether a host is in the U.S.

I really don't see how that's possible, given the possibility of me
taking my laptop to Ecuador, dialing into a stateside ISP, and being
issued an IP address in the ISP's domain.  In other words, anything
that bases a decision on host location by inference on the domain 
will inherently be rooted in the notion that hosts in that domain are
stuck to the ground "nearby".

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