said by RARPSL:I realize that CV (or whatever ISP has an IPN Block) can/should tell the Geo-Locate databases when the database is handing out bad/incorrect location info.
It's not CV's job to sustain an utterly crooked and broken business sector - specialty data providers that are dishing out the Koolaid to websites and businesses everywhere, and selling them on the idea that geo-fencing is a good idea: it's only a good idea if you're are defending an indefensible legacy business model of some sort (why shouldn't I be allowed to order a gift from amazon.co.uk using a US credit card and ship to a UK address, instead of being forced to ship it to the US first, and having to remail it via the mails at great cost, exactly?). It's also useful if you are an unrepentant copyright-maximalist like HBO, Hulu or $RANDOM_US_TV_NETWORK that wants to block ISP-side customers of Cable-MSO's it tries to strong-arm/blackmail into ridiculous carriage retransmission fees.
There IS NO STANDARD PROCESS for "submitting geo-location info" to anyone, or anything. Location is NOT a defined property for ANY globally registered chunk of IP space (there's no field in the registration process for ARIN, RIPE, etc.).
Moved a /22 that you were forced to "optimize" usage for due to ARIN policies from Hackensack, NJ to Hicksville, NY? Gee, gotta visit 15 major geo-location providers, navigate their clumsy websites and forms, possibly register with a valid email address, and then submit that location change - and do so possibly dozens of times per week.
Don't like the manual process? Hope you're up for coding against 15 different REST APIs (if they actually have one)!
Insanity for this "business" is too weak a word: not playing into the hands of greedy, self-interested third parties, when there's
no apparent ROI on your OWN resources spent, makes a lot of business sense.
Most of these things actually get updated by large websites processing commercial transactions and selling accessing IPs and customer address data in bulk: once you have a /24 that had 5-10 IPs hit an Amazon order for the same town (and discard the 10-20% anomalies), you can be pretty sure you got the area right.