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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Fred Posner via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" class="">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I wonder what ios15's new hide my ip feature will do to this.<br class=""><br class="">Fred Posner | <a href="http://palner.com" class="">palner.com</a><br class="">Matrix: @fred:<a href="http://matrix.lod.com" class="">matrix.lod.com</a><br class="">o: +1 (212) 937-7844<br class=""><br class="">On 9/27/21 3:35 PM, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">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.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez <<a href="mailto:caalvarez@gmail.com" class="">caalvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">VoiceOps mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" class="">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br class="">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>