Comment by jedberg
2 years ago
You don't need precise lat/lon to make a good database. Even a 1km circle would be more than enough.
> but not ASN
Why wasn't ASN allowed? That's what Netflix used to make endpoint routing decisions and worked really well.
You’re not wrong, but privacy concerns were paramount.
ASNs were allowed but too vague. We needed more granularity. Corporate proxies, subdelegations, many providers aggregating announcements below /24, etc.