[OpenIPMap] Bringing CAIDA's geoloc efforts into the fold

[Daniel Karrenberg]

On 17.06.14 11:27 , Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> Hi,
> 

> One of our goals is to involve "the crowd" to supply input to this
> service. I personally don't have a strong preference about how exactly
> people enter this input, as long as:
> * the data is freely available to our (future) service and to the
> community in general
> * it's possible to attribute contributions to contributors in a consistent
> way (ie. NCC access or such)
> * technically, and from the intended use point of view, it does not make a
> difference where this data is entered
> * going this way does not impede our plans and actions
> 
> I'm OK with CAIDA doing this part, as long as the above holds. It's even
> better if along the way their systems can be improved with this data.
> 
I fully agree with this. We should do what we said we would do: Create a
repo for crowdsourcing. We should not create interdependencies.

> As for accepting regexps or such: I cannot tell you if this suggestion is
> a good enough substitute or not, as I don't know the details yet :-) I do
> however have a good understanding on how our service could directly be
> enhanced with regexp style inputs.
> 
> Bottom line: we'd have to know more about how our community (and we
> ourselves) could do this and what are the consequences of using this
> method, in order to assess whether this is the preferred way.

Yep.