To highlight Steve's point - take a look at the great maps that Liquid Telecom has of the fiber network in Sub-Saharan Africa
", "time": "2023-03-30T00:37:10Z"}, {"author": "Jane Coffin", "text": "Amazing to see this overlay from Ghana as you can pull some dark fiber from the rail and power entities!
", "time": "2023-03-30T00:40:53Z"}, {"author": "Kurtis Heimerl", "text": "My audio might not be working so let me type
", "time": "2023-03-30T00:53:55Z"}, {"author": "Jane Coffin", "text": "I could see this type of standard being hugely important to small ISPs, Community and muni-nets in the US, right now, who are dealing with some super tricky broadband mapping maps that are not accurate. The US FCC has had over a million challenges. I could see this standard helping a great deal with GIS mapping.
", "time": "2023-03-30T00:57:04Z"}, {"author": "Juliusz Chroboczek", "text": "What's \"challenge\" in the above? Some sort of formal complaint?
", "time": "2023-03-30T00:58:06Z"}, {"author": "Kurtis Heimerl", "text": "@Juliusz Kinda, there's money around what places have and don't have coverage and these are contested. There may be more.
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:00:24Z"}, {"author": "Jane Coffin", "text": "Yes. The FCC opened up a window to allow communities/ISPs/others who track this
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:01:59Z"}, {"author": "Jane Coffin", "text": "Big fan of IXP Manager!
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:10:44Z"}, {"author": "Kurtis Heimerl", "text": "Seems like a great tool and initiative!
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:21:52Z"}, {"author": "Kurtis Heimerl", "text": "The existing RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7962/
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:52:35Z"}, {"author": "Kurtis Heimerl", "text": "https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/releases/tag/v6.1
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:55:59Z"}, {"author": "Nigel Hickson", "text": "Thank you
", "time": "2023-03-30T01:58:26Z"}]