[VoiceOps] Ray Baum's act and all-softphone deployments

Carlos Alvarez caalvarez at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 15:52:27 EDT 2021


Ah, great, yet another challenge here.  So even the city can't be
determined in that case.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:46 PM Fred Posner via VoiceOps <
voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:

> I wonder what ios15's new hide my ip feature will do to this.
>
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> On 9/27/21 3:35 PM, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps wrote:
> > I wonder if doing GeoIP via a commercial database like MaxMind—and we
> all know how perfect a location mechanism that is—could be construed as a
> sufficient “best effort” in this case.
> >
> >> On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ours doesn't, but that's a good idea to share with the vendor.  But in
> most cases, people are using the softphone on a laptop and there's no
> native phone app, nor a GPS, nor any other location info other than
> proximate wi-fi networks.
> >>
> >> I can see no feasible way to meet the letter of the law, and hate to be
> depending on the good graces of a bureaucrat to know that it's an
> impossible task.
> >
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