A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds
RFC 8805

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8805, changed title to 'A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds', changed abstract to 'This document records a format whereby a network operator can publish a mapping of IP address prefixes to simplified geolocation information, colloquially termed a "geolocation feed". Interested parties can poll and parse these feeds to update or merge with other geolocation data sources and procedures. This format intentionally only allows specifying coarse-level location.

Some technical organizations operating networks that move from one conference location to the next have already experimentally published small geolocation feeds.

This document describes a currently deployed format. At least one consumer (Google) has incorporated these feeds into a geolocation data pipeline, and a significant number of ISPs are using it to inform them where their prefixes should be geolocated.', changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-08-06, changed ISE state to Published RFC)