also important point when you using Starlink and got totally different "relay" station sometimes can be thousand miles away, I think we need to "upgrade" our internet infrastructure for interplanetary system
The regulatory imperative isn’t going anywhere, even if we degrade our good-enough, handshake-based, AS-operator-trusting system.
If history is any guide, any replacement technology might look a lot more intrusive and a lot more onerous: the first thought that comes to mind is some kind of DRM-style, device-based, attested location surveillance (tied to a government ID? Why not?!) as “proof of location,” and I’m sure the powers that be could come up with “better”…
Unfortunately, I don't think that not gaming GeoIP will change that. It's going there already.
I have a long thread of screenshots of this crap, and that's just select examples: https://mastodon.social/@grishka/111934602844613193
Tons of websites and apps would use that IP location to default payment to Canadian dollars, default language as French, incorrect timezone, metric units instead of imperial.
It was like that for a couple of years. Quite annoying.
Don't see a downside here! :D
Still strange when they somehow manage to get my location for a weather report right but default to Celsius for temperature.