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IAB Workshop Report on IP Address Geolocation

Speakers:
Dhruv Dhody, IAB Chair
Warren Kumari, Google LLC
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Plenary
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10 min
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Abstract

The IAB IP Address Geolocation Workshop examined how IP-based geolocation is widely used across content delivery, compliance, and network optimization, despite well-known limitations in accuracy, transparency, and privacy. This presentation summarizes key findings from the workshop, including gaps in current practices, architectural implications of relying on IP-derived location, and emerging directions such as alternative signals and improved data distribution mechanisms.

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Speakers

Dhruv Dhody

Dhruv Dhody

Dhruv Dhody is an Internet standardization expert at Huawei-India with over 23 years of experience in the research and development of technologies including Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing, and SDN. An active IETF contributor since 2010, Dhruv’s work has focused on path computation, traffic engineering, and SDN in the routing area.

Dhruv serves as Chair of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and co-chairs the IETF SRv6OPS and PCE WGs. They are also active in the Routing Directorate, YANG Doctors, and Operations Directorate, and have previously served as IAB Outreach Coordinator, on the IETF list moderator team, and as an IAB liaison to the IESG.

In addition to their technical work, Dhruv is committed to increasing participation in the IETF from the Asia/Pacific region and other underrepresented groups, with the goal of strengthening diversity and inclusion in the Internet standards community.

Warren Kumari

Warren Kumari

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