On Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:02:04 -0500, Mike McNally wrote:

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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".

Maybe have the option of identifying host mobility? # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)