-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven Bellovin <s...@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:35 17AM, William Herrin wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Franck Martin <fra...@genius.com> wrote: >>> If it is a business, then accurate address does not seem to me an >>> issue, if it is a private address, I think a bit of fuzziness is >>> helpful >> >> An apartment complex/condo/etc is a business which contains private >> addresses. >> >> Do you sell to the residents directly or do you sell to the apartment >> complex which then resells to individual residents? >> >> If the former then you're basically off the hook for anybody who >> doesn't get a /29 or larger. >> >> For the latter, you're providing significant amounts of a public >> resource (IP addresses) to a business whose contact information you're >> contractually and ethically obligated to reveal. If a particular >> complex is worried about publishing their location, they can always >> rent a P.O. box. If you're the only one doing the worrying, don't. > > I strongly disagree -- you're revealing the precise address of any tenant > in those buildings. Don't do that... > > Chiming in: I would tend to agree with smb on this particular issue -- that's a bit *too* precise. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMWcNoq1pz9mNUZTMRArbvAJ9ymAZzgf/hlOVPWQtTj3GcGCFKaACff7Hy bMw7Gg6uZObU4cPmoDU9TK4= =mrQI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
